George MacDonald Quotes about Prayer

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If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

George MacDonald

Prayer, Doe, Genius

George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.7819, Delphi Classics

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.

George MacDonald

Prayer, Mind, Enough

[God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship," for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way."

George MacDonald

Strong, Prayer, Children

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

The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.

George MacDonald

Christian, Prayer, Law

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

George MacDonald

Prayer, Thinking, Answers

George MacDonald (2015). “A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing

Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.

George MacDonald

Prayer, Children, Love You

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.9509, e-artnow