George MacDonald

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 to fact divine He advances, until at length in His Son Jesus, He unveils His very face.

You can’t leave thoughts as you do books. Those you love only come nearer to you when you go away from them.

And if there was a good deal of superstition mingled with her prayer, the main thing in it was genuine that is, the love that prompted it; and if God heard only perfect prayers, how could he be the prayer-hearing God?

The words of the Lord are the seed sown by the sower. Into our hearts they must fall that they may grow. Meditation and prayer must water them, and obedience keep them in the sunlight. Thus they will bear fruit for the Lord’s gathering.

God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.

Bring him a true heart, an obedient hand: he has given his life-blood for that; but your money—he neither needs it nor cares for it.

It is a good thing to desire to share a good thing, but it is not well to be unable alone to enjoy a good thing.

While roots are seeking a deeper soil, the resulting faith is not always able to show so fast a growth above ground.

I know that all the strangest things in life and history must one day come together, in a beautiful face of loving purpose, one of the faces of the living God.

Meekness alone makes the spiritual retina pure to receive God’s things as they are.

A voice in the wind I do not know; A meaning on the face of the high hills Whose utterance I cannot comprehend. A something is behind them: that is God.

If God be at peace, why should not I be?

To do as God does is to receive God; to do a service to one of His children is to receive the Father.

God loves, yea, is love. Therefore hell itself must be subservient to that love and must be an embodiment of it.

The whole of creation, its growth, its history, the gathering of all human existence, is an unveiling of the Father.

When souls have been ill-taught about God, the true God will not let them gaze too long upon the Moloch which men have set up to represent Him.

Things go wrong because men have such absurd and impossible notions about possession. They are always trying to possess, to call their own, things which it is impossible, from their very nature, ever to possess or make their own.

Love alone is great in might, Makes the heavy burden light, Smooths rough ways to weary feet, Makes the bitter morsel sweet: Love alone is strength!

Humble ministrations to your neighbor will help you to that perfect love of God which casteth out fear.