George MacDonald Doe Quotations

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

In short, a man must be set free from the sin he is , which makes him do the sin he does .

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?

In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.

If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.