Quotes by George Macdonald

Where did you come from baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here.

It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

The principle part of faith is patience.

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

Timely service like timely gifts is doubled in value.

This is a sane wholesome practical working faith: That it is a mans business to do the will of God second that God himself takes on the care of that man and third that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything.

My prayers my God flow from what I am not I think Thy answers make me what I am.

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.

Fear is faithlessness.

It is not the cares of today but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet.

It is when tomorrows burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

The west is broken into bars Of orange gold and gray Gone is the sun come are the stars And night infolds the day.