J. E. H. MacDonald Quotes

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

They say that if you're afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you're actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I'm afraid of dogs.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

I don't know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it's fun to watch either one of them get beat up.

Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.

Trust means you anchor your heart in the reality of God's awareness of your situation.

Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there's always beer.

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.

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.

I'm thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him.

You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

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.

When you come to the place where you can't do anything else, you must stand still and believe... When you can't do anything, let God do it all.

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

Take a deep breath and take this to heart; God has nothing to do with broken promises. When He says, I promise, mark it down it's going to happen.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.

Faith sees the opportunity; doubt sees the obstacles. What you see is what you get!

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

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

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

When we get bumped - we spill what we are full of - Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

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

The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.

The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.

God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.

Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.

Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude for living.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for God, about God, through God, and to the glory of His great Son.

Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

Don't lean on your own understanding. If your trust in God is limited by your understanding of His ways, you will always have a limited trust.

Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.

He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.

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.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.