George MacDonald Quotes

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

Jesus never called a human being a sinner.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

The Saints never suffer as the sinners do.

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

Saints need sinners.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

Religions have always been clearly on to this psycho-therapeutic score. For hundreds of years in the West, Christian art had a very clear function: it was meant to direct us towards the good and wean us off vice.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.

You should always take what I say about religion with a grain of salt, because the 7 deadly sins are more like my seven daily activities. I try to check them all off at least once a day. All of them except gluttony; my trainer keeps that under control.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.