Top 100 Quotes About George Macdonald
#1. Many a wrong, and it's curing song,
many a road, and many an inn,
Room to roam, but only one home,
for all the world to win.
George MacDonald, (Lilith)
George MacDonald
#2. R0 explains and, to some limited degree, it predicts. It defines the boundary between a small cluster of weird infections in a tropical village somewhere, flaring up, burning out, and a global pandemic. It came from George MacDonald.
David Quammen
#3. As George MacDonald wisely wrote, "The one principle of hell is, I am my own!" 4 Fierce pride usually protects this wrong perception.
Neal A. Maxwell
#4. I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also wrote the Flashman stories, which are irresistible.
Virginia Henley
#5. We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We have a body.
George Macdonald, 1892
George MacDonald
#6. George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.
Elisabeth Elliot
#7. This is why Jesus challenged the notion that more evidence would have generated more faith. George Macdonald said years ago that to give truth to him who does not love the truth is to only give more reasons for misinterpretation.
Ravi Zacharias
#8. Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as high fantasy was more or less invented by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Adrian McKinty
#9. THOSE THAT HOPE LITTLE CANNOT GROW MUCH." - George MacDonald, The Hope of the Gospel
Edward H. Hammett
#10. An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]
C.S. Lewis
#11. George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble
times when I have seen people tempted to deny God
when he says, The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
Madeleine L'Engle
#12. There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.
George MacDonald Fraser
#13. The man who recognizes the truth of any human relation and neglects the duty involved is not a true man.... A man may be aware of the highest truths of many things, and yet not be a true man, inasmuch as the essentials of manhood are not his aim: he has not come into the flower of his own being.
George MacDonald
#14. There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.
George MacDonald
#15. 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 and
peace for we should not then be shut up in ourselves, but would walk
abroad in him
George MacDonald
#16. You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.
George MacDonald
#17. In moments of doubt I cry, 'Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?'
'Whence then came thy dream?' answers Hope.
George MacDonald
#18. When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.
George MacDonald
#20. Twilight-kind, oppressing the heart as with a condensed atmosphere of dreamy undefined love and longing.
George MacDonald
#21. Possessed by the power of the gorgeous night, she seemed at one and the same moment annihilated and glorified.
George MacDonald
#22. The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
George MacDonald
#23. The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
George MacDonald
#24. I need a God; and if there be none how did I come to need one?
George MacDonald
#25. There is a great deal more to be got out of things than is generally got out of them, whether the thing be a chapter of the Bible or a yellow turnip, and the marvel is that those who use the most material should so often be those that show the least result in strength or character.
George MacDonald
#26. It is greed and laziness and selfishness, not hunger or weariness or cold, that take the dignity out of a man, and make him look mean.
George MacDonald
#27. Grave doubts as to whether I was in my place in the church, would keep rising and floating about, like rain-clouds within me.
George MacDonald
#28. Pious people in general seem to regard religion as a necessary accompaniment of life; to Wingfold it was life itself; with him religion must be all, or could be nothing.
George MacDonald
#29. God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.
George MacDonald
#30. punishment had not been spared--with best results in patience and purification
George MacDonald
#31. Better to sit at the waters birth,
Than a sea of waves to win;
To live in the love that floweth forth,
Than the love that cometh in.
Be thy a well of love, my child,
Flowing, and free, and sure;
For a cistern of love, though undefiled,
Keeps not the spirit pure.
George MacDonald
#33. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, "Thou art my refuge.
George MacDonald
#34. Immeasurably imperfect it was, but false the impression could not be, for she saw with the eyes made for seeing, and saw indeed what many men are too wise to see.
George MacDonald
#35. Understanding is the reward of obedience. Obedience is the key to every door. I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.
George MacDonald
#36. Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
George MacDonald
#38. The heavens and the earth are around us that it may be possible for us to speak of the unseen by the seen, for the outermost husk of creation has correspondence with the deepest things of the Creator.
He is not a God that hides himself, but a God who made all that he might reveal himself.
George MacDonald
#39. 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
#40. But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.
George MacDonald
#41. One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.
George MacDonald
#42. Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
George MacDonald
#43. People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.
George MacDonald
#44. You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.
George MacDonald
#45. But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.
George MacDonald
#47. I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.
George MacDonald Fraser
#49. But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.
George MacDonald
#50. Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.
George MacDonald
#51. The minister was an honest man so far as he knew himself and honesty, and did not relish this form of submission. But he did not ask himself where was the difference between accepting the word of man and accepting man's explanation of the word of God!
George MacDonald
#52. There are a great many more good things than bad things to do.
George MacDonald
#53. sweeter than joy itself, for the heart of the laugh was love.
George MacDonald
#54. A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.
George MacDonald
#55. We should never wish our children or friends to do what we would not do ourselves if we were in their positions. We must accept righteous sacrifices as well as make them.
George MacDonald
#56. Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.
George MacDonald
#57. 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
#58. But her mother was one of those weakest of women who can never forget the beauty they once possessed, or quite believe they have lost it, remaining, even after the very traces of it have vanished, as greedy as ever of admiration.
George MacDonald
#59. George Soros finances liberal immigration policy throughout the Western world and also funds Noel Ignatiev and his "Race Traitor" website dedicated to the abolition of the white race. So
Kevin Macdonald
#60. But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.
George MacDonald
#62. There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would have turned from her, because of her history, with a sad disgust. Was he less pure now? He was more pure, for he was humbler.
George MacDonald
#63. I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.
George MacDonald
#65. 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
#66. People must not choose their neighbors; they must take the neighbors that God sends them. The neighbor is just the person who is next to you at the moment, the person with whom any business has brought you into contact.
George MacDonald
#67. In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might,
Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.
George MacDonald
#68. Those are not the tears of repentance! ... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.
George MacDonald
#69. But in after days Cosmo repented of having so completely dropped the old gentleman's acquaintance; he was under obligation to him; and if a man will have to do only with the perfect, he must needs cut himself first, and go out of the world.
George MacDonald
#70. From Eden's bowers the full-fed rivers flow,
To guide the outcasts to the land of woe:
Our Earth one little toiling streamlet yields.
To guide the wanderers to the happy fields.
George MacDonald
#71. True business can never be left in any shop. It is a care, white or black, that sits behind every horseman.
George MacDonald
#72. In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
George MacDonald
#73. Yes, grannie, you are right. You remember how old dame Hope wouldn't take the money you offered her, and dropped such a disdainful courtesy. It was SO greedy of her, wasn't it?
George MacDonald
#74. But Mrs. Wingfold had developed a great aptitude for liking people. Surely more people would allow themselves to be thus changed if they realized how greatly the coming of the kingdom of God is slowed by a simple lack of courtesy.
George MacDonald
#75. Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or once abstained because He said, Do not do it! It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.
George MacDonald
#76. Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _to do_. Action _may_ be hypocrisy, but being is the thing itself, and is the parent of action.
George MacDonald
#77. I might here find the magic word of power to banish the demon and set me free, so that I should no longer be a man beside myself.
George MacDonald
#78. ... leaning with her back bowed into the back of the chair, her head hanging down and her hands in her lap, very miserable as she would say herself, not even knowing what she would like, except to go out and get very wet, catch a particularly nice cold and have to go to bed and take gruel.
George MacDonald
#79. A voice is in the wind I do not know
A meaning on the face of the high hills
Whose utterance I cannot comprehend.
A something is behind them: that is God.
George MacDonald
#80. But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that he takes them from them, and
tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true!
George MacDonald
#81. She began to learn that nothing is dead, that there cannot be a physical abstraction, that nothing exists for the sake of the laws of its phenomena.
George MacDonald
#82. I don't know how to thank you.'
Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.
George MacDonald
#84. How much time is wasted in what is called thought, but is merely care--an anxious idling over the fancied probabilities of result
George MacDonald
#85. The good man never wrote or read a sermon, but talked to his people as one who would meet what was in them with what was in him.
George MacDonald
#86. The well-meaning woman was in fact possessed by two devils--the one the stiff-necked devil of pride, the other the condescending devil of benevolence. She was kind, but she must have credit for it
George MacDonald
#87. My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not;
I think thy answers make me what I am.
George MacDonald
#88. O, lack and doubt and fear can only come
Because of plenty, confidence, and love!
They are the shadow-forms about their feet,
Because they are not perfect crystal-clear
To the all-searching sun in which they live.
Dread of its loss is Beauty's certain seal!
George MacDonald
#89. The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is - not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.
George MacDonald
#90. The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.
George MacDonald
#91. I am ready,' I replied.
'How do you know you can do it?'
'Because you require it,' I answered.
George MacDonald
#92. The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
George MacDonald
#93. You have tasted of death now," said the old man. "Is it good?"
"It is good," said Mossy. "It is better than life."
"No," said the old man: "it is only more life.
George MacDonald
#94. Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin.
The only vengeance worth having on sin
is to make the sinner himself its executioner.
George MacDonald
#95. I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.
George MacDonald Fraser
#96. When one says to the great Thinker:
"Here is one of thy thoughts: I am thinking it now!" that is a prayer
a word to the big heart from one of its own little hearts.
Look, there is another!
George MacDonald
#97. Contempt is murder committed by the intellect, as hatred is murder committed by the heart.
George MacDonald
#98. 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
#99. Joy's a subtil elf. I think man's happiest when he forgets himself.
George MacDonald
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