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George MacDonald Quotes

George MacDonald quotes

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

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George MacDonald quote: "Work done is of more consequence for the future than the..."
Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel. George MacDonald
...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. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness."
God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what..."
But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!"Not what he pleases, but what he can. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "the road is difficult. - But come; loss now will be gain then!..."
the road is difficult. - But come; loss now will be gain then! To wait is harder than to run, and its meed is the fuller. George MacDonald
Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sinis to make the sinner himself its executioner. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second,..."
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission. George MacDonald
He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where, finding no utterance, they grew, and swelled, and undermined. George MacDonald
I Have been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind. An old Greek writer mentions a people who lived there, and were so comfortable that they could not bear it any longer, and drowned themselves. My story is not the same as his. I do not think Herodotus had got the right account of the place. I am going to tell you how it fared with a boy who went there. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "You would not think any duty small,If you yourself were great."
You would not think any duty small,If you yourself were great. George MacDonald
No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it - no place to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was..."
Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls. George MacDonald
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
George MacDonald quote: "Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a..."
Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb! George MacDonald
there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away. George MacDonald

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