George MacDonald Quotes

If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue and my shelter and my home.

The good Lord doesn't tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.

There will be an answer. Let it be.

You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.

I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

The Lord has a plan. We always think the plans are A, B, C and D, and everything is going to be perfect for us and it may not be that way, but it's still his plan.

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

To me faith means not worrying.

It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

God allows circumstances to build us up. God has got our back.

I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.