Life Quotes by George MacDonald

Religion is life essential.

— George MacDonald

What would the Living One have me do?

— George MacDonald

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

— George MacDonald

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

— George MacDonald

Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!

— George MacDonald

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

— George MacDonald

“You allowed me existence, which is the sum of what one can demand of his fellow-beings”

— George MacDonald

“I had chosen the dead rather than the living, the thing thought rather than the thing thinking!”

— 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

I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of…

— George MacDonald

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

— George MacDonald

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

— 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

All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes…

— George MacDonald

“For each, God has a different response. With every man He has a secret—the secret of a new name. In every man…

— George MacDonald

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement…

— George MacDonald

All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan…

— George MacDonald

“You have tasted of death now,” said the old man. “Is it good?” “It is good,” said Mossy. “It is better than…

— George MacDonald

“That which is the power and worth of life they must be, or die; and the vague consciousness of this makes them…

— 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

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 world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have…

— George MacDonald

“We weep for gladness, weep for grief; The tears they are the same; We sigh for longing, and relief; The sighs have…

— George MacDonald

The whole history of the Christian life is a series of resurrections. . . . Every time we find our hearts are…

— George MacDonald

“Where people know their work and do it, life has few blank spaces for boredom and they are seldom to be pitied.…

— George MacDonald

“The claim that hung over him haunted his very life, turning the currents of his thought into channels of speculation unknown before.…

— George MacDonald

“How often do we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else…

— George MacDonald

The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go.…

— George MacDonald

“...To trust in the strength of God in our weakness; to say, ‘I am weak: so let me be: God is strong;’…

— George MacDonald

“THE SHADOWS Table of Contents Old Ralph Rinkelmann made his living by comic sketches, and all but lost it again by tragic…

— George MacDonald

“It is just the old way--that of obedience. If you have ever seen the Lord, if only from afar--if you have any…

— George MacDonald

“Anybody with leisure can do that who is willing to begin where everything ought to be begun--that is, at the beginning. Nothing…

— George MacDonald

“what then is death? If it be a stopping of life, then that is which cannot be. But it may be only…

— George MacDonald

“There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing…

— George Macdonald

“But how is one to tell whether it be in truth the spirit of God that is speaking in a man?' You…

— George MacDonald

“At length, one lovely morning, when the green corn lay soaking in the yellow sunlight, and the sky rose above the earth…

— George MacDonald

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

— George MacDonald

Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping…

— George MacDonald

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

— George MacDonald

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

— George MacDonald