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George MacDonald Quotes

George MacDonald quotes about believe

Scottish Novelist, Poet December 10, 1824 – September 18, 1905

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But we believe? nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly. For pain and hope and all that led or drove. Us back into the bosom of thy love. George MacDonald
Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL. George MacDonald
Many feelings are simply too good to last--using the phrase not in the unbelieving sense in which it is generally used, but to express the fact that intensity and endurance cannot coexist in the human frame. But the virtue of a mood depends by no means on its immediate presence. Like any other experience, it may be believed in, and, in its absence, which leaves the mind free to contemplate it, works even more good than its presence George MacDonald
She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down on their hands till their hands grow into feet; then lay their faces on the ground till they grow into snouts; when at last they are a hideous sort of lizards, each of which believes himself the best, wisest, and loveliest being in the world, yea, the very centre of the universe. And so they run about for ever looking for their own shadows that they may worship them, and miserable because they... George MacDonald
Why don't you go on, Mother dear?' he asked. 'It's such nonsense!' said his mother. 'I believe it would go on for ever.' 'That's just what it did,' said Diamond.' 'What did?' she asked.' 'Why, the river. That's almost the very tune it used to sing. George MacDonald
There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection. One of the latter sort comes at length to know at once whether a thing is true the moment it comes before him; one of the former class grows more and more afraid of being taken in, so afraid that he takes himself in altogether, and comes at length to believe in nothing but his dinner: to be sure of a thing is to have it between... George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "I don't believe that he thinks about His glory except for the..."
I don't believe that he thinks about His glory except for the sakeof truth and men's hearts dying for the lack of it. George MacDonald
People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it. George MacDonald
"Then what do you see?" asked Irene, who perceived at once that for her not to believe him was at least as bad as for him not to believe her. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing."
Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing. George MacDonald

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