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George MacDonald Quotes

George MacDonald quotes

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

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If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction. George MacDonald
I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking. George MacDonald
It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of. George MacDonald
She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our..."
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. George MacDonald
Have you forgiven me?' I asked. 'How can I say I have, when I never had anything to forgive?' 'Well then, I must go unforgiven for I cannot forgive myself.' I said. 'O Mrs. Percivale! If you think how the world is flooded with forgiveness, you will just dip in your cup, and take what you want. George MacDonald
One day [the prince] lost sight of his retinue in a great forest. These forests are very useful in delivering princes from their courtiers, like a sieve that keeps back the bran. Then the princes get away to follow their fortunes. In this they have the advantage of the princesses, who are forced to marry before they have had a bit of fun. I wish our princesses got lost in a forest sometimes. George MacDonald
I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an..."
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large..."
Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "The principle part of faith is patience."
The principle part of faith is patience. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken."
Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken. 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
I was doing the wrong of never wanting or trying to better. And now I see that I have been letting things go as the would for a long time. Whatever came into my head I did and whatever didn’t come into my head I didn’t do. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings."
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings. George MacDonald

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