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From Unspoken Sermons, by George MacDonald

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Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

God, whose pleasure brought Man into being, stands away As it were, an handbreath off, to give Room for the newly-made to live. He has made us, but we have to be.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

Nor does the lesson apply to those only who worship Mammon, who give their lives, their best energies to the accumulation of wealth: it applies to those equally who in any way worship the transitory; who seek the praise of men more than the praise of God; who would make a show in the world by wealth, by taste, by intellect, by power, by art, by genius of any kind, and so would gather golden opinions to be treasured in a storehouse of earth.

Quote · Faith & Trust

The true man trusts in a strength which is not his, and which he does not feel, does not even always desire; believes in a power that seems far from him, which is yet at the root of his fatigue itself and his need of rest—rest as far from death as is labour.

Quote · Faith & Trust

The God who is ever uttering himself in the changeful profusions of nature; who takes millions of years to form a soul that shall understand him and be blessed; who never needs to be, and never is, in haste; who welcomes the simplest thought of truth or beauty as the return for seed he has sown upon the old fallows of eternity.

Quote · Faith & Trust

The faith that limits itself to the promises of God, seems to me to partake of the paltry character of such a faith in my child—good enough for a Pagan, but for a Christian a miserable and wretched faith.

Quote · Faith & Trust

Faith is that which, knowing the Lord’s will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills; neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action.

Quote · Faith & Trust

Every uplifting of the heart is a looking up to The Father.

Quote · Love

How the earthly father would love a child who would creep into his room with angry, troubled face, and sit down at his feet, saying when asked what he wanted: ‘I feel so naughty, papa, and I want to get good’!

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

It is the man’s own symbol, his soul’s picture, in a word, the sign which belongs to him and to no one else.

Quote · Faith & Trust

Let us then dare something. Let us not always be unbelieving children.

Quote · Faith & Trust

So are we sons when we begin to cry Father, but we are far from perfected sons.

Quote · Faith & Trust

He who would thus live must, as a mirror draws into its bosom an outward glory, receive into his ‘heart of heart’ the inward glory of Jesus Christ, the Truth.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

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.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

To be free you must be sons like me.

Quote · Faith & Trust

Graciousness and truth are around, above, beneath us, yea, in us.

Quote · Strength & Perseverance

Demands unknown before are continually being made upon the Christian: it is the ever fresh rousing and calling, asking and sending of the Spirit that worketh in the children of obedience.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

These things cannot be loved. The best man hates them most; the worst man cannot love them.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

To be free you must be that which you have to be, that which you are created.

Quote · Faith & Trust

If there be a God, and I am his creature, there may be, there should be, there must be some communication open between him and me.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

But that we should receive what we ask in respect of our lower needs, is not God’s end in making us pray, for he could give us everything without that: to bring his child to his knee, God withholds that man may ask.

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