George Macdonald quotes and words of wisdom

"How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is, when tomorrow?s burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God?s. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present."
Found in the topic Burden.

"The principal part of faith is patience."
Found in the topic Faith.

"But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms."
Found in the topic Money.

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved."
Found in the topic Trust.

Interesting Quotes

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.Stephen Hawking - English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - )

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.Joseph Heller - US novelist (1923 - )