George MacDonald Quotes

For many people, God is primitive, behind, trying to drag everything back to some prehistoric era as opposed to spirit, force, love, drawing us into a better future, which to me is - that story has done something in me and I've seen it do things in other people.

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.

I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.

Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

When one comes to know God and His Son Jesus Christ through the scriptures, the Spirit, and personal revelation, it is impossible to feel anything other than overwhelmed by the attributes so perfectly developed in them and so tentatively and superficially developed in oneself. Even so, we are told to strive to become like them.

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.

Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.