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This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.

This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.

George MacDonald
Father, Home, Heart
George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.13355, e-artnow

He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.

George MacDonald
Prayer, Father, Heart
George MacDonald (2016). “Unspoken Sermons, completed: MacDonald's Works”, p.172, VM eBooks

When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.

George MacDonald
Heart, Thinking, Shapes
George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice.

George MacDonald
Passion, Heart, Men
George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.

George MacDonald
Jesus, Heart, Giving
George MacDonald (1893). “The Poetical Works of George MacDonald (Volumes I and II)”, p.333, Library of Alexandria

All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.

George MacDonald
Wise, Children, Heart
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13260, Delphi Classics

No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather!

George MacDonald
Heart, Hair, Heaven
George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “The Heart of George MacDonald: A One-Volume Collection of His Most Important Fiction, Essays, Sermons, Drama, and Biographical Information”, p.399, Regent College Publishing

Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.

George MacDonald
Love, Heart, Caring
George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.2406, e-artnow

But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

George MacDonald
Heart, Depth, Voiceless
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.46, Delphi Classics

Better to have the poet's heart than brain, Feeling than song.

George MacDonald
Song, Heart, Feelings
George MacDonald (1872). “Within and Without”, p.117

It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.

George MacDonald
Heart, Laughing, Not Sure
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.6560, Delphi Classics

In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.

George MacDonald
Hate, Lying, Heart
George MacDonald, Craig Yoe (1980). “The Golden Key and Other Stories”, p.73, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God without these millions of sights and sounds and scents and motions, weaving their endless harmonies. They come out of His heart to let us know a little of what is in it.

George MacDonald
Heart, Sight, Environmental
George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.5600, e-artnow

The whole history of the Christian life is a series of resurrections. . . . Every time we find our hearts are troubled, that we are not rejoicing in God, a resurrection must follow; a resurrection out of the night of troubled thought into the gladness of the truth.

George MacDonald
Christian, Heart, Night

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.

George MacDonald
Forgiveness, Heart, Giving

As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.

George MacDonald
Heart, Feelings, Degrees
George MacDonald (2007). “Unspoken Sermons”, p.192, Cosimo, Inc.

It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father's will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free.

George MacDonald
Father, Heart, Loss
George MacDonald (2016). “The Hope of the Gospel: MacDonald's Works”, p.90, VM eBooks

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

George MacDonald
Lying, Heart, Men
George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.5088, e-artnow

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.

George MacDonald
Life, Dirty, Heart
George MacDonald (2015). “George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more”, p.597, e-artnow

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

George MacDonald
God, Heart, Thinking
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.12931, Delphi Classics

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