Discovering the Character of God Quotes

“I would I were a child, That I might look, and laugh, and say, My Father! And follow thee with running feet, or rather Be led through dark and wild! How I would hold thy hand, My glad eyes often to thy glory lifting! Should darkness 'twixt thy face and mine come drifting, My heart would but expand. If”
― George MacDonald, Discovering the Character of God

“All Is Well When We Know Who God Is A Fictional Selection from The Elect Lady Think, ma'am: people that only care to be saved, that is, not to be punished for their sins, are anxious only about themselves, not about God and his glory at all. They talk about the glory of God, but they make it consist in pure selfishness! According”
― George MacDonald, Discovering the Character of God

“No abstract truth held by purest insight can make a man free. But the truth done, the truth loved, the truth lived by the man, the truth of and not merely in the man himself—that is the truth that makes him free.”
― George MacDonald, Discovering the Character of God

“Although it is caused by sin, suffering is for the sinner, that he may be delivered from his sin.”
― George MacDonald, Discovering the Character of God

“No man is condemned for anything he has done; he is condemned for continuing to do wrong. He is condemned for not coming out of the darkness, for not coming to the light, the living God, who sent the light, his Son, into the world to guide him home.”
― George MacDonald, Discovering the Character of God

“Come to him with all your weaknesses, all your shames, all your futilities; with all your helplessness over your own thoughts; with all your failures, yes, the sick sense of having missed the tide of true affairs. Come to him with all your doubts, fears, dishonesties, meanness, paltriness, misjudgments, weariness, disappointments, and staleness. Be sure he will take you with all your miserable brood into the care of his limitless heart!”
― George MacDonald, Discovering the Character of God

“The soul in harmony with his Maker has more life, a larger being, than the soul consumed with cares. The sage has a larger life than the clown. The poet is more alive than the man whose life flows out that money may come in. The man who loves his fellow is infinitely more alive than he whose endeavor is to exalt himself above his neighbor. The man who strives to be better in his being is more alive than he who longs for the praise of many.”
― George MacDonald, Discovering the Character of God