Quote

If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.

George MacDonald

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
Author
Cleric
Journalist
Minister
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
Would
Gladly
Wake
Reader
Music

More quotes by George MacDonald

Image
We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are offered his Spirit, that is, his very nature within us, for the asking, we will hardly take the trouble to ask for it.
George MacDonald
Image
Which of us is other than a secret to all but God!
George MacDonald
Image
God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home.
George MacDonald
Image
Why should my love be powerless to help another?
George MacDonald
Image
God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation--a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth. On and on from fact Divine He advances, until at length in His Son Jesus He unveils His very face.
George MacDonald
Image
If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!
George MacDonald
Image
Those that hope little cannot grow much.
George MacDonald
Image
I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.
George MacDonald
Image
It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.
George MacDonald
Image
The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.
George MacDonald
Image
Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.
George MacDonald
Image
But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.
George MacDonald
Image
What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?
George MacDonald
Image
I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.
George MacDonald
Image
Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.
George MacDonald
Image
Moderation is the basis of justice.
George MacDonald
Image
Suppose you didn't know him, would that make any difference?' 'No,' said Willie, after thinking a little. 'Other people would know him if I didn't.' 'Yes, and if nobody knew him, God would know him, and anybody God has thought worth making, it's an honor to do anything for.
George MacDonald
Image
Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action
George MacDonald
Image
If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.
George MacDonald
Image
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.
George MacDonald