Explore more quotes by George MacDonald

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

Being, Compliment

"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."

Wisdom, Work, Body, Disease

"The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done."

Duty, Future, Preparation, Present

"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

Man,

"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."

God, Man, Want, Will

"Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes."

Love, Eyes

"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

Man, May

"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity."

Work, Quality, God, Exhaustion

"You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud."

Leisure, Amusement, Deep, Water

"Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty."

Choice, Difficulty

Exlpore more God quotes

"I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books."

Lynn Abbey, American Author

God, Books, Freewill, Sense

"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."

Ansel Adams, American Photographer

God,

"Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God."

Henry Adams, American Historian

God, Man, Trying

"A thick skin is a gift from God."

Konrad Adenauer, German Statesman

God, Skin

"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."

Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychologist

God, Soul, Goal, Cosmos

"The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

God, Gods, Pleasure

"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

God, Help

"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

God, Decency, Man, Mind

"God always strives together with those who strive."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

God,

"For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

God, Gods, Man, Misfortune