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Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.
— George MacDonald
Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls. — George MacDonald
I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.
— George MacDonald
Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.
— George MacDonald
No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.
— George MacDonald
And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing towards decay.
— George MacDonald
We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.
— George MacDonald
The more people trust in God, the less will they trust their own judgments, or interfere with the ordering of events.
— George MacDonald
In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
— George MacDonald
We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.
— George MacDonald
How kind you are, North Wind!''I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it. — George MacDonald
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.
— George MacDonald Fraser
The darkness knows neither the light nor itself; only the light knows itself and the darkness also. None but God hates evil and understands it.
— George MacDonald
Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.
— George MacDonald
To hear one talk is better than to see one.
— George MacDonald
The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop.
— George MacDonald
I took the guinea, and put it in my purse.
— George MacDonald
There is no law that sermons shall be the preacher's own, but there is an eternal law against all manner of humbug. Pardon the word.
— George MacDonald
Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.
— George MacDonald
Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.
— George MacDonald
It seems the way to find some things is to lose yourself.
— George MacDonald
Love makes all safe.
— George MacDonald
It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.
— George MacDonald
Bees and butterflies, moths and dragonflies, the flowers and the brooks and the clouds.
— George MacDonald
For I had long thought that the way to make indifferent things bad, was for good people not to do them.
— George MacDonald
Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.
— George MacDonald
It was a profound pleasure to her not to know what was coming next, provided some one whom she loved did.
— George MacDonald
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
— George MacDonald
For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.
— George MacDonald
Now Malcolm was back again, but he came once too often, and was killed at Alnwick in 1093.
— George MacDonald Fraser
Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.
— George MacDonald
A devil - "A power that lives against its life
— George MacDonald
Here lies David ElginbrodHave mercy on my soul, dear God,
As I would ye if I were God
And ye were David Elginbrod. — George MacDonald
whoever is diligent will soon be cheerful,
— George MacDonald
The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.
— George Everett Macdonald
Our moon," he answered, "is not like yours-the old cinder of a burnt-out world; her beams embalm the dead, not corrupt them.
— George MacDonald
Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
— George MacDonald
Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.
— George MacDonald
To be kind neither hurts nor compromises.
— George MacDonald
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
— George MacDonald
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
— George MacDonald
Will is not unfrequently weakness.
— George MacDonald
Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.
— George MacDonald
A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.
— George MacDonald
The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.
— George MacDonald
Ignorance is no reason with a fool for holding his tongue.
— George MacDonald
But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool of you that you will know yourself for one, and so begin to be wise!
— George MacDonald
If you will not determine to be pure, you will grow more and more impure.
— George MacDonald
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
— George MacDonald
Obedience is the opener of eyes.
— George MacDonald
There are a great many more good things than bad things to do.
— George MacDonald
It is as necessary for a poor man to give away, as for a rich man. Many poor men are more devoted worshipers of Mammon than some rich men.
— George MacDonald
One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
— George MacDonald
Faith is obedience, not compliance.
— George MacDonald
I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.
— George MacDonald
Where was God?In him and his question. — George MacDonald
If man could do what in his wildest self-worship he can imagine, the grand result would be that he would be his own God, which is the Hell of Hells.
— George MacDonald
I awoke one morning with the usual perplexity of mind which accompanies the return of consciousness.
— George MacDonald
Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.
— George MacDonald
Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.
— George MacDonald
He believed in God and he believed that when the human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because it is its own.
— George MacDonald
I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.
— George MacDonald
In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow ...
— George MacDonald
Nobody knows what anything is; a man can only learn what a thing means!
— George MacDonald
The year's fruit must fall that the next year's may come, and the winter is the only way to the spring.
— George MacDonald
Sweet sounds can go where kisses may not enter.
— George MacDonald
Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
— George MacDonald
The mind of the many is not the mind of God.
— George MacDonald
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
— George MacDonald
A name is one of those things one can give away and keep all the same.
— George MacDonald
He (God) loves what I shall be.
— George MacDonald
to teach is the best way to learn, but that the imperfect are the best teachers of the imperfect.
— George MacDonald
It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.
— George MacDonald
Who obeys, shines.
— George MacDonald
I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her, an' his airms aboot her, an' keep aff the hardenin' o' the hert 'at despises coonsel!
— George MacDonald
What does God want me to do?", not "What will God do if I do so and so?
— George MacDonald
If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.
— George MacDonald
Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.
— George MacDonald
For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.
— George MacDonald
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
Every question is a door-handle.
— George MacDonald
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
— George MacDonald
One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up
— George MacDonald
In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.
— George MacDonald
Better to have the poet's heart than brain,Feeling than song. — George MacDonald
I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.
— George MacDonald
The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.
— George MacDonald
A Baby Sermon-The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home — George MacDonald
Trust is born in love, and our need is to love God, not apprehendfacts concerning him. — George MacDonald
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
— George MacDonald
To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
— George MacDonald
there is plenty of room for meeting in the universe.
— George MacDonald
