Inspirational Quotes by George MacDonald
“Wherever the Lord makes a provision, we are quite sure that there was a need for it. No superfluities clutter the covenant of grace.”
“Faith is as much the gift of God as is the Saviour upon whom that faith relies.”
“He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.”
“I feel myself to be a lump of unworthiness, a mass of corruption, and a heap of sin, apart from His almighty love.”
“The sinner is the gospel’s reason for existence. You, my friend, to whom this word now comes, if you are undeserving, ill-deserving, hell-deserving, you are the sort of man for whom the gospel is ordained, and arranged, and proclaimed. God justifieth the ungodly.”
“nature I must take my place among the most sinful. I, who am altogether undeserving, am treated as if I had been deserving.”
“Surely no rebel can expect the King to pardon his treason while he remains in open revolt. No one can be so foolish as to imagine that the Judge of all the earth will put away our sins if we refuse to put them away ourselves.”
“We can never be happy, restful, or spiritually healthy till we become holy.”
“The Lord knows right well that you cannot change your own heart, and cannot cleanse your own nature; but He also knows that He can do both.”
“Faith is the work of God’s grace in us. No man can say that Jesus is the Christ but by the Holy Ghost.”
“It is always the way. Until a man knows God, he seeks to obey him by doing things he neither commands nor cares about;”
― George MacDonald ,
from There & Back
“What is called a good conscience is often but a dull one that gives no trouble when it ought to bark loudest;”
― George MacDonald ,
from There & Back
“heaven is high and deep, and its lower air is music; in the upper regions the music may pass, who knows, merging unlost, into something endlessly better!”
― George MacDonald ,
from There & Back
“I would I were in the kingdom of heaven if it be as you and Mr. Graham take it for!" said Clementina. "You must be in it, my lady, or you couldn't wish it to be such as it is." "Can one be in it and yet seem to himself to be out of it. Malcolm?" "So many are out of it that seem to be in it, my lady, that one might well imagine it the other way around with some.”
― George MacDonald ,
from The Marquis' Secret
“He rebelled against the highest as if the highest were the lowest—as if the power that could create a heart for bliss, might gloat on its sufferings.”
― George MacDonald ,
from There & Back
“It is not at all a fit place for ," said Clementina. "Gently, my lady. It is a greater than thou that sets the bounds of my habitation. Perhaps He may give me a palace one day. But the Father has decreed for His children that they shall know the thing that is neither their ideal nor His. All in His time, my lady. He has much to teach us.”
― George MacDonald ,
from The Marquis' Secret
“Things that we are right in thinking bad, must be bad to God as well as to us; but may there not be things so far above us, that we cannot take them in, and they seem bad because they are so far above us in goodness that we see them partially and untruly? There must be room in his wisdom for us to mistake! He would try to trust! He would say, "If thou art my father, be my father, and comfort thy child. Perhaps thou hast some way! Perhaps things are not as thou wouldst have them, and thou art doing what can be done to set them right! If thou art indeed true to thy own, it were hard not to be believed—hard that one of thine own should not trust thee, should not give thee time to make things clear, should behave to thee as if thou wouldst not explain, when it is that we are unable to understand!”
― George MacDonald ,
from There & Back
“I will be glad!" he said, "even in the midst of a world of rain!—Yet again, why should the mere look of a rainy night make it needful for me to assert joy and resist sadness?—After all, what is there to be merry about, in this best of possible worlds? I like going to the theatre; but if I don't like the play, am I to be pleased all the same, sit it out with smiles, and applaud at the end?—I don't see what there is to make me miserable, and I don't see what there is to make me glad!”
― George MacDonald ,
from There & Back
“The righteousness that makes a man visit the sins of a father upon his children, is the righteousness of a devil, not the righteousness of God. When God visits the sins of a father on his children, it is to deliver the child from his own sins through yielding to inherited temptation.”
― George MacDonald ,
from There & Back
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George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.
Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, George MacDonald inspired many authors, such as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence."
Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by MacDonald.
MacDonald grew up influenced by his Congregational Church, with an atmosphere of Calvinism. But MacDonald never felt comfortable with some aspects of Calvinist doctrine; indeed, legend has it that when the doctrine of predestination was first explained to him, he burst into tears (although assured that he was one of the elect). Later novels, such as Robert Falconer and Lilith, show a distaste for the idea that God's electing love is limited to some and denied to others.