George MacDonald Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• "But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?"

  George MacDonald

  God, Christian, Religious

  George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

• The truly wise talk little about religion and are not given to taking sides on doctrinal issues. When they hear people advocating or opposing the claims of this or that party in the church, they turn away with a smile such as men yield to the talk of children. They have no time, they would say, for that kind of thing. They have enough to do in trying to faithfully practice what is beyond dispute.

  George MacDonald

  Wise, Children, Party

• Those Christians who are very strict in their observances, think a good deal more of the Sabbath than of man, a great deal more of the Bible than of the truth, and ten times more of their creed than of the will of God. Of course, if they heard anyone utter such words as I have just written, they would say he was and atheist.

  George MacDonald

  Christian, Atheist, Men

• The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.

  George MacDonald

  Christian, Prayer, Law

• I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

  George MacDonald

  Religious, Stupidity, Religion

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.5907, Delphi Classics

• One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.

  George MacDonald

  Religion, Causes, World

• If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!

  George MacDonald

  Religion, Different, Would Be

• Religion is life essential.

  George MacDonald

  Religion, Essentials

• To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

  George MacDonald

  Judging, Religion, Ladders

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.7411, Delphi Classics

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