J. E. H. MacDonald Quotes
Oblige me by telling me where I am.""That is impossible. You know nothing about whereness. The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.
Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.
The well-meaning woman was in fact possessed by two devils--the one the stiff-necked devil of pride, the other the condescending devil of benevolence. She was kind, but she must have credit for it
No good ever comes of pride, for it is the meanest of mean things, and no one but he who is full of it thinks it grand.
Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.
My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.
punishment had not been spared--with best results in patience and purification
It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more intense. And I could see the glint of the carrion flies.
Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.
How much time is wasted in what is called thought, but is merely care--an anxious idling over the fancied probabilities of result
One of the most frequent sins of omission is the failure to get adequate rest.
The apparent facts, if you like. I'm not a philosopher. We lawyers don't deal in ultimate realities. Who knows what they are? We deal in appearances.
The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.
At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?
In healthy churches, the pastors life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church.
We must evaluate every person, place, product, perspective, position, or pleasure we have looked to in place of the promises of God, and turn away from those things accordingly.
Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.
So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.
Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ.
If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.
Many pastors would rather preach God's Word and keep their distance than invest in a personal one-on-one counseling ministry. Most pastors counsel because they have to, not because they want to.
Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.
We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.
Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way
The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.
She learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You’ll soon find out how inadequate your little drop of goodness is.
From the neglect of a real duty, she became the slave of a false one.
She who is even once unjust can not complain if the like is expected of her again.
The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.
Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms.
In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.
He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.
On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there were only one architect in the city and he had a magnificent obsession.
The walls of books around him dense with the past formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
Confederation is only yet in the gristle and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.
There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Not only then has each man his individual relation to God but each man has his peculiar relation to God.