Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
George MacDonaldDoing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
George MacDonaldTags: god-s-will god-s-plans
To try to be brave is to be brave.
George MacDonaldPhilosophy is really homesickness.
George MacDonaldThere is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.
George MacDonaldThe boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born.
George MacDonaldRemember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.
George MacDonaldI don't know how to thank you.'
Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.
Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.
George MacDonaldYou thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)
George MacDonaldTags: expectation
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