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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: "Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the..."
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning..."
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. George MacDonald
What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her? And did not she come awake exactly at the right moment when the right prince kissed her? For my part, I cannot help wishing a good many girls would sleep till just the same fate overtook them. It would be happier for them, and more agreeable to their friends. George MacDonald
In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have; for it is not the things we see the most clearly that influence us the most powerfully; undefined, yet vivid visions of something beyond, something which eye has not seen nor ear heard, have far more influence than any logical sequences whereby the same things may be demonstrated to the intellect. It is the nature of the thing, not the clearness of its outline, that... 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
I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although one sixpence is as good as another sixpence, not twenty lambs would do instead of one sheep whose face you knew. Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one anymore. Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight. 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 age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs. George MacDonald
Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase of flowers. If I may not, let me think how nice they would be and bury myself in my work. I do not think that the road to contentment lies in despising what we have not got. Let us acknowledge all good, all delight that the worlds holds, and be content without it. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "But I don't quite understand, Father: is nobody your friend..."
But I don't quite understand, Father: is nobody your friend but the one that does something for you? George MacDonald
A mountain is a strange and awful thing. In old times, without knowingso much of their strangeness and awfulness as we do, people were yetmore afraid of mountains. But then somehow they had not come to seehow beautiful they are as well as awful, and they hated them--and whatpeople hate they must fear. Now that we have learned to look at themwith admiration, perhaps we do not feel quite awe enough of them. Tome they are beautiful terrors. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest..."
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a..."
Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly. George MacDonald
The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the borders of the sunshine broke against their stems, or swept in long streams through their avenues, washing with brighter hue all the leaves over which it flowed; revealing the rich brown of the dacayed leaves and fallen pine-cones, and the delicate greens of the long grasses and tiny forests of moss that covered the channel over which it passed in the motionless... George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should..."
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our..."
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. George MacDonald

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