George MacDonald Quotes

Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.

Destiny, or karma, depends upon what the soul has done about what it has become aware of.

Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.

There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior.

I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.

There are people who say, "God is in complete control of everything that happens, and if the Earth is getting warmer, then maybe God intends that." Well, no. God intends for us to take responsibility for how we treat God's creation, and if we choose to use the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet as an open sewer for 110-million tons of global-warming pollution every day, the consequences are attributable to us. And if you are a believer, as I am, I think God intends for us to open our eyes and take responsibility for the moral consequences of our actions.

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.

We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it?

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

Even without the mushroom cloud still I would have hated Listen I would have done the same things even if there were no death I will not be held like a drunkard under the cold tap of facts I refuse the universal alibi

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.

To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.