I.B. George Quotes

It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.

As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.

I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

Philosophy is really homesickness.

I believe in fate, never in chance.

He (God) loves what I shall be.

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.

In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope.

I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.

A voice is in the wind I do not know A meaning on the face of the high hills Whose utterance I cannot comprehend. A something is behind them: that is God.

But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again

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!

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

A true friend is forever a friend.

As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.

Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

Only because uplifted in song, was I able to endure the blaze of the dawn.

You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you are not true.

What would the Living One have me do?

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

Difficulty adds to result, as the ramming of powder sends the bullet the further.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

Common 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.

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.

Somehow, I can't say how, it tells me that all is right; that it is coming to swallow up all cries.

For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.