George MacDonald Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.”

“To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.”

“The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.”

“It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.”

“It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.”

“It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.”

“Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.”

“Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.”

“Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.”

“I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.”