George Macdonald Quotes

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We have a body." George Macdonald, 1892

— George MacDonald

“It is a greater compliment to be trusted than to be loved. George MacDonald”

— Rick Johnson

I like learning things from books. Some of my favourites are George MacDonald Fraser's 'Flashman' novels; he researched them meticulously.

— Richard Bacon

“Communion with God is the one need of the soul beyond all other need,” wrote George MacDonald. “Prayer is the beginning of…

— John Eldredge

George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Lewis’s hero George MacDonald once put it (and as the children’s journey to Aslan behind Lucy’s leadership demonstrates), “Obedience is the opener…

— Joe Rigney

My wife and I have this discussion all the time. Her primal influences are J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and George MacDonald. Mine…

— Chris Claremont

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he…

— Anonymous

I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also…

— Virginia Henley

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“Many a wrong, and it's curing song, many a road, and many an inn, Room to roam, but only one home, for…

— george macdonald

God's love is a gift that can make you forget yourself at times. The Scottish writer George MacDonald said, "It is the…

— Sheila Walsh

“With every morn my life afresh must break The crust of self, gathered about me fresh; That thy wind-spirit may rush in…

— George MacDonald

“George MacDonald made the following observation: Instead of crushing the power of evil by divine force; instead of compelling justice and destroying…

— Ravi Zacharias

“In sum, disciples might do well to avoid the bibliolatry that characterizes scripture as unerring truth. Parley Pratt made this point himself…

— Terryl L. Givens

“Creators of literary fairy tales from the 17th-century onward include writers whose works are still widely read today: Charles Perrault (17th-century France),…

— Terri Windling

“As George MacDonald was so fond of pointing out, not one word in the New Testament implies that vindictiveness and wrath are…

— Thomas Talbott

“I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things…

— Terri Windling

“All the books were beginning to turn against me. Indeed, I must have been blind as a bat not to have seen…

— C.S. Lewis

“Christopher Westcott slowly drank his pint of ale at the Bird and Baby, as locals liked to call the Eagle and Child,…

— Melanie Dobson