“I don't believe that he thinks about His glory except for the sake of truth and men's hearts dying for the lack… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
But there is no veil like light--no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation--a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Then his heart and imagination were more in the ascendency. Now he had begun to admire the intellectual qualities of that literature… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Those Christians who are very strict in their observances, think a good deal more of the Sabbath than of man, a great… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“But in truth there was more expression in the flower than was yet in the face. The flower expressed what God was… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Ask a man of mere science, what is the truth of a flower: he will pull it to pieces, show you its… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“No revelation can be other than partial. If for true revelation a man must be told all the truth, then farewell to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“But how is one to tell whether it be in truth the spirit of God that is speaking in a man?' You… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I would never speak about faith, but speak about the Lord himself - not theologically, as to the why and wherefore of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“In truth, they were not given to quarrelling. Many couples who love each other more, quarrel more, and with less politeness.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“No revelation can be other than partial. If for true revelation a man must be told all the truth, then farewell to revelation; yea,… — George MacDonald Copy Share
In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell. — George MacDonald Copy Share
The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the… — George MacDonald Copy Share
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. — George MacDonald Copy Share
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace? — George MacDonald Copy Share
You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave. — George MacDonald Copy Share
“Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.” — George MacDonald Copy Share
“You have tasted of death now,” said the old man. “Is it good?” “It is good,” said Mossy. “It is better than life.” “No,”… — George MacDonald Copy Share
“I wish I had [made that song]. No, I don't That would be to take it from somebody else. But it's mine for all… — George MacDonald Copy Share
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. — George MacDonald Copy Share
I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first. — George MacDonald Copy Share
“Immeasurably imperfect it was, but false the impression could not be, for she saw with the eyes made for seeing, and saw indeed what… — George MacDonald Copy Share
