George MacDonald Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.

  George MacDonald

  Father, Yoke, Unrest

  George MacDonald (1989). “Discovering the character of God”, Bethany House Pub

• To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.

  George MacDonald

  Cleansing, Baths, Sin

  George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons”, p.228, Regent College Publishing

• Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

  George MacDonald

  Beautiful, Art, Wickedness

• To free a man from suffering, he must be set right, put in health; and the health at the root of man's being, his rightness, is to be free from wrongness, that is, from sin. A man is right when there is no wrong in him. I do not mean set free from the sins he has done: that will follow; I mean the sins he is doing, or is capable of doing; the sins in his being which spoil his nature — the wrongness in him — the evil he consents to; the sin he is, which makes him do the sin he does.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Doe, Sin

  "The Complete Works of George MacDonald".

• If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.

  George MacDonald

  Sin, Grows, Determine

  "The Hope of the Gospel".

• The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins and feeling nothing of their dread hatefulness, have, consistent with their low condition, constantly taken this word concerning the Lord to mean that he came to save them from the punishment of their sins.

  George MacDonald

  Taken, Mean, Men

• Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

  George MacDonald

  Vengeance, Sin, Executioners

• There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

  George MacDonald

  Thinking, Desire, Longing

  George MacDonald (2015). “ADELA CATHCART – The Complete Fantasy Tales Series: The Light Princess, The Shadows, Christmas Eve, The Giant’s Heart, The Broken Swords, The Cruel Painter, The Castle and many more”, p.129, e-artnow

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