Love Quotes by George MacDonald

We are not made for law, we are made for love.

— George MacDonald

He (God) loves what I shall be.

— George MacDonald

Love is liking someone better than you like yourself.

— George MacDonald

Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.

— George MacDonald

Which of us is other than a secret to all but God!

— George MacDonald

Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.

— George MacDonald

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.

— George MacDonald

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

— George MacDonald

“Wherever there is anything to love, there is beauty in some form.”

— 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

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

— George MacDonald

As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.

— George MacDonald

“...as no one can be just without love, so no one can truly report without understanding.”

— George MacDonald

Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.

— George MacDonald

In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.

— George MacDonald

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

— George MacDonald

Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she…

— George MacDonald

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes…

— George MacDonald

God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will,…

— George MacDonald

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is…

— George MacDonald

“And we had met at last in this same cave of greenery, while the summer night hung round us heavy with love,…

— George MacDonald

“She had not yet such a love of wisdom as to be able to bear with folly. The foolish and weak are…

— George MacDonald

“There is nothing eternal but that which loves and can be loved, and love is ever climbing towards the consummation when such…

— George MacDonald

“Life eternal, this lady of thine hath a sore heart, and we cannot help her. Thou art help, O Mighty Love. Speak…

— George MacDonald

“I doobt the fau't's nae sae muckle i' my temper as i' my hert. It's mair love that I want, Tibbie. Gin…

— George MacDonald

Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He…

— George MacDonald

“I knew now, that it is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another;…

— George MacDonald

“For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand…

— George MacDonald

“It would hardly be kindness if he didn't punish sin, not to use every means to put the evil thing far from…

— George MacDonald

“It is not alone the first beginnings of religion that are full of fear. So long as love is imperfect, there is…

— George MacDonald

A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou honour'st his obedience, he…

— George MacDonald

“The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks,…

— George MacDonald

“Doubt swells and surges, with swelling doubt behind! My soul in storm is but a tattered sail, Streaming its ribbons on the…

— George MacDonald

“But this part of my dream, the most lovely of all, I can find no words to describe; nor can I even…

— George MacDonald

“One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have to give up my…

— George MacDonald

“For, when we say that God is Love, do we teach men that their fear of him is groundless? No. As much…

— George MacDonald

“For love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Where loveliness is incomplete,…

— George MacDonald

God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will,…

— George MacDonald

“He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had forgotten…

— George MacDonald

“Even Annie did not then know that it was the soul's hunger, the vague sense of a need which nothing but the…

— George MacDonald