J. E. H. MacDonald Quotes
It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of clever animals who know how to reach through the loopholes and pick the pockets of the unsuspecting.
Of course the reason that all the children in our town like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is because Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle likes children, she enjoys talking to them and best of all they do not irritate her.
the truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength.
Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.
That's all nonsense, " said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?
All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.
...dread invades the living room, finds her on the couch, presses on her, gets inside her where it swiftly grows bigger than she is until she is inside it, looking out from a rind of shadow.
I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her, an' his airms aboot her, an' keep aff the hardenin' o' the hert 'at despises coonsel!
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
On the way home I felt a great and simple sadness. I missed my dad. I missed him very much.
Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind.
If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words--food and exercise.
How kind you are, North Wind!''I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it.
Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not confidence.
Alas, how easily things go wrong!A sigh too much, a kiss too longAnd there follows a mist and a weeping rainAnd life is never the same again
It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others.
In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do."--Meyer's Law
...as no one can be just without love, so no one can truly report without understanding.
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _to do_. Action _may_ be hypocrisy, but being is the thing itself, and is the parent of action.
The main secret of his progress, the secret of all wisdom, was, that with him action was the beginning and end of thought.
While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.
Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.
There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end.
...he believed in God and he believed that when the human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because it is its own.
Pride rises above and against the knowledge of God, acting as if He is unworthy to be retained in our thoughts.
Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one can tell them not to, and one can tell them not to worry so much.
If we are going to start calling industrial corn sustainable, then we might as well say that petroleum is a renewable resource if you're willing to wait long enough.
A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.
All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story.
God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.
Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.
This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God – understood and interpreted through biblical eyeglasses.
A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.
I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people.
The person who can not bear with a sick man or a baby is not fit to be a woman.
She did not even trouble herself much to show Godfrey her gratitude. We may spoil gratitude as we offer it, by insisting on its recognition. To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly.
The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.