george-macdonald Quotes About christ

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins and feeling nothing of their dread hatefulness, have, consistent with their low condition, constantly taken this word concerning the Lord to mean that he came to save them from the punishment of their sins.”

Men Mean Feelings Christ Sin Lord Taken Conditions Lows Consequence Punishment Consistent Dread

Author:George MacDonald

“We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are offered his Spirit, that is, his very nature within us, for the asking, we will hardly take the trouble to ask for it.”

Thinking Men Care Spirit Asks Jesus Christ Trouble Asking Glorious

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.”

Desire Christ Highest Slave Dare Aspiration Discipleship

Book:Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons

Source: Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons

“O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything but thy father's son, 'Tis something not yet from the darkness won. Oh, give me light to live with open eyes. Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.”

Ifs Giving Littles Light Eye Father Christ Darkness Sky Son Give Me Take Me Open Eyes

Book:The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“All is loss that comes between us and Christ.”

Christ Loss

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.”

Men Humanity Christ Every Man

Book:Unspoken Sermons: Third Series

Source: Unspoken Sermons: Third Series

“We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because we gaze at the marks of our own soiled feet, and the trail of our own defiled garments.... Each, putting his foot in the footprint of the Master, and so defacing it, turns to examine how far his neighbor’s footprint corresponds with that which he still calls the Master’s, although it is but his own.”

Looks Stills Christian Turns Christ Feet Masters Mark Neighbor Trails Garments Footprint

Book:Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons

Source: Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons

“One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.”

World Religion Causes Christ Amount Glory Chiefs Unbelief

Author:George MacDonald

“God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid.”

Feelings Jesus Christ Jesus Christ

Book:The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“Except the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus make a man sick of his opinions, he may hold them to doomsday for me; for no opinion, I repeat is Christianity, and no preaching of any plan of salvation is the preaching of the glorious gospel of the living God.”

Men May Light Faces Jesus Christ Christianity Opinion Plans Glory Sick Salvation Repeats Glorious Preaching Glory Of God Doomsday Plan Of Salvation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," not the Bible, save as leading to Him.”

Ifs Way Believe Matter Whole Jesus Belief Christ Leadership Claims Lays Treasure Revelations Unfolding Wronged Knowledge And Wisdom

Book:Unspoken Sermons, completed: MacDonald's Works

Source: Unspoken Sermons, completed: MacDonald's Works

“Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.”

Men Done Christ Views Division Infidelity

Book:The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.”

Men Mind Christ Disciple Discipleship

Book:The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

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