George MacDonaldFaith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing in… ▶372HopeTime
George MacDonaldIt is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. ✨ George MacDonald (2015). The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poe… ▶372Reading
George MacDonaldHer heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw. ✨ George MacDonald (2015). Th… ▶374LoveReading
George MacDonaldWhen I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then th… ▶363HopeLifeLove
George MacDonaldAbove all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them. ✨ George MacDonald (2015). The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories,… ▶363ReadingTime
George MacDonaldGod left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and fe… ▶352Life
George MacDonaldNo man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. ✨ George Macdonald (2… ▶363Time
George MacDonaldYou thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christiani… ▶363Thought
George MacDonaldAnything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon. ✨ George Macdonald (2012). Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III, p.130, Simon and Sc… ▶352Time
George MacDonaldA beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it. ✨ George MacDonald (2015). Delphi Complete Works of George MacDon… ▶363Hope
George MacDonaldWhen we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over ✨ George MacDonald (2015). Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated), p… ▶364Thought
George MacDonaldIt matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing. ✨ George MacDonald (2015). The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Sto… ▶375ReadingTime
George MacDonaldNever tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.375Politics
George MacDonaldYou must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave. ✨ George MacDonald (1904). The Day Boy and the Night Girl, p.48, Libr… ▶331Hope
George MacDonaldWhere there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty. ✨ George MacDonald (2015). SIR GIBBIE & DONAL GRANT: The Baronet’s Song and The Shepherd’s Castle (Adventure Clas… ▶353Thought
George MacDonaldWe die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. ✨ George MacDonald (2015). Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated), p.3540, Delphi Classics353DeathLife
George MacDonaldMany a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom. ✨ George MacDonald (2015). The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, S… ▶364Reading
George MacDonaldIt may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because364Humanity
George MacDonaldTo receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing. ✨ George MacDonald (2015). The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The P… ▶354DeathReadingTruth
George MacDonaldThe miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in. ✨ George MacDonald (2015). Delphi Complete Works of George M… ▶321Reading
George MacDonaldIf there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence. ✨ George MacDonald (2015). THOMAS WIN… ▶365Life
George MacDonaldHere I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true … ▶343Truth
George MacDonaldI watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was i… ▶343Hope
George MacDonaldIt is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence. ✨ George MacDonald (2015). Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated), p.65… ▶332HumorLove
George MacDonaldBut there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is. ✨ George MacDonald, Ro… ▶377HopeLife
George MacDonaldAlas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again ✨ George Macdonald (2015). Ma… ▶355Life
George MacDonaldThe greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended. ✨ George MacDonald (2015). Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated), p.13486, Delphi Classics311Reflection
George MacDonald...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old… ▶344HumanitySadness
George MacDonaldEach is but a means to an end; in the perfected end we find the intent, and there God — not in the laws themselves, except as his means of revealing himself. For that same reason,… ▶355HumanityPolitics
George MacDonaldI am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do… ▶344Reading
