George MacDonald Quotes

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

When in God thou believest, near God thou wilt certainly be.

To believe in God is to give your heart to God.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.

If God is God, we can't be afraid of what we can learn.

I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.

Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'

I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless.

I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.

I'm open to whatever God puts in front of me and makes my heart pitter patter.

We all doubt sometimes, and that's okay, but He's always there. He's always faithful even when we're not.

My relationship with God and my parents, that's what keeps me together. I know that everything could end as soon as it starts.

I am totally in the hands of the Lord.

I'm not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me.

There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands.

I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

There's an antidote to our fears- trust. If we trust God more,we can fear less.

Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.

Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.

I'd rather have all my questions unanswered and walk with God than not walk with God and have all my questions answered.