I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.
George MacDonaldWe are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.
George MacDonaldMy prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.
George MacDonaldThou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.
George MacDonaldCommon people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.
George MacDonald"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