All posts tagged George MacDonald

The whole trouble is that we won’t let God help us. – George MacDonald

The whole trouble is that we won’t let God help us.

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

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

In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given…

In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have…

God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. – George MacDonald

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.