george-macdonald Quotes About looks

“How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to live in it.”

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

“It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talking or brooding about it, much less in making, for form's sake, a parade of it. Better and healthier to forget it, and look to tomorrow.The celebrated British stiff upper lip, the resolve to conceal emotion which is not only embarrassing and useless, but harmful, is just plain commons sense”

“Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.”

Ifs World Looks Book Seems Break Wind Mass Rounds Now And Then Another World Break Through

Book:Lilith

Source: Lilith

“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

“We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.”

Thinking Needs Looks Heart God Wake Up Be Good Waking Good God

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.”

Men World Looks Stills Earth Lasts Left Rocks Havens Skills Resources Adversity Clouds Storm Oil Driven Look Up Electricity Unfinished Storms Of Life

Author:George MacDonald

“But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.”

Looks May Littles Reason Pain Suffering Sun Cold Winter Forsaken

Author:George MacDonald

“Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.”

World Trying Looks Half Misery Hypocrite

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

“Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The night and storm look as if they would last forever; but the calm and the morning cannot be stayed; the storm in its very nature is transient. The effort of nature, as that of the human heart, ever is to return to its repose, for God is Peace.”

Ifs Thinking Want Humans Looks Heart Seems Lasts Night Peace Nature Effort Morning Forever Trouble Return Calm Storm I Want You Human Heart Repose Passing Away Transient

Author:George MacDonald

“For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those--few at any moment on the earth--who do not 'look before and after, and pine for what is not,' but live in the holy carelessness of the eternal now.”

Looks Moments Earth Lying Animal Levels Holy Eternal Shadow Bliss Carelessness Before And After

Book:George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more

Source: George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more

“[God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship," for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way."”

Way Giving Looks May Children I Can Desire Strong Prayer Worship Worthy My Children Knees Can Not

Author:George MacDonald

“Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.”

Firsts Looks Faith Doubt Doors Honest Understood Deeper Uncertainty Regions Assurance Messengers Unexplored

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and revelation they are-if he be such, I say, he will stand, for more than a moment, speechless with something akin to that which made the morning stars sing together.”

Ifs Looks Made Soul Moments Shows Together Stars Wonder Morning Mystery Revelations Glimpse Garments Speechless

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

“When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awe-inspiring loving-kindness.”

Looks God Seems Faces Lying Waiting Kindness Sky Century Blue Mysterious Peaceful Awe Tenderness Blue Sky Loving Kindness Awe Inspiring

Author:George MacDonald

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