J. E. H. MacDonald Quotes

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!

Most worries are reruns.

One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

Those that hope little cannot grow much.

It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.

The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.

In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.

What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.

There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

When you say, I don't know exactly what God is doing, but I know he's in control that's evidence you're trusting Him.

I will not fail: God is always victorious.

Humility is a do thing, not a feel thing. Humility is an action, not a style.

I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart.

...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.

I'm no good at anecdotes.

I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero.

We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain elusive in the blending, and with sauces whose ingredients are even now a secret.

Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.

Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.

The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.

Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!

Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.

When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.

It is easier to hate those we love, than love those whom we have hated.

It is better to be idle than employed in ill.

Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!

I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.

Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.

My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

A foundation is a large amount of money completely surrounded by people who want some.

Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.

Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.

Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

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.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.