George MacDonald Quotes About Neighbors

Quotes about: Neighbors

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

  George MacDonald

  Love, Doors, Self

  George MacDonald (1887). “God's Words to His Children: Sermons Spoken and Unspoken”

• People must not choose their neighbors; they must take the neighbors that God sends them. The neighbor is just the person who is next to you at the moment, the person with whom any business has brought you into contact.

  George MacDonald

  People, Community, Next

• We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because we gaze at the marks of our own soiled feet, and the trail of our own defiled garments.... Each, putting his foot in the footprint of the Master, and so defacing it, turns to examine how far his neighbor’s footprint corresponds with that which he still calls the Master’s, although it is but his own.

  George MacDonald

  Christian, Feet, Looks

  George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons”, p.336, Regent College Publishing

• You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.

  George MacDonald

  People, Soul, Criticism

  George MacDonald (1878). “The Marquis of Lossie”

• God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Neighbor, Should

  George Macdonald (1870). “The Miracles of Our Lord”, p.17

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