George MacDonald Quotes

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe.

God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting.

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

The word for knowledge appears in the Koran more often than any other except God.

There is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

I have tremendous faith in God that all things happen for a reason, even if we don't understand.

The more you try to grip control of your life the more God's gonna untangle that from you. He's going to make things go where you have to rely on Him.

God always has a perfect plan!

I think God has got a sense of humor. I really do.

Do your best and leave the rest to God.

You pray for things, and you know, we all have our wishlists, but I've learned to pray for whatever's in your will.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

God's way is still the best way.

We need to do what we can do and let God do what we cannot.

I've come to learn that theology matters. It matters not because we want to impress people, but because what we know about God shapes the way we think and live. Theology matters because if we get it wrong then our whole life will be wrong.

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.