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George MacDonald Quotes

George MacDonald quotes

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

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To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by facts; seeks for higher and yet higher laws in those facts; but refuses to regard science as the sole interpreter of nature, or the laws of science as the only region of discovery. George MacDonald
Our minds are small because they are faithless,' I said to myself.'If we had faith in God our hearts would share in His greatness andpeace for we should not then be shut up in ourselves, but would walkabroad in him George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "The best preparation for the future is the present well seen..."
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. George MacDonald
The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary likeness of the thing made to him who makes it, and so of the work of the made to the work of the maker... The imagination of man is made in the image of the imagination of God. George MacDonald
To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us. George MacDonald
Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise. George MacDonald
Seek not that your sons and your daughters should not see visions, should not dream dreams; seek that they should see true visions, that they should dream noble dreams. Such out-going of the imagination is one with aspiration, and will do more to elevate above what is low and vile than all possible inculcations of morality. George MacDonald
A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. If my drawing, on the other hand, is so far from being a work of art that it needs THIS IS A HORSE written under it, what can it matter that neither you nor your child should know what it means? It is there not so much to convey a meaning as to wake a meaning. If it do not even wake an interest, throw it aside. A meaning may be there, but it is not for you. If, again, you do not know a horse... George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at..."
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. George MacDonald
To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "Attitudes are more important than facts."
Attitudes are more important than facts. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about..."
Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for..."
I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us,..."
If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence George MacDonald
I 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 in it. George MacDonald

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