“Wherever there is anything to love, there is beauty in some form.” — 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
If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“...as no one can be just without love, so no one can truly report without understanding.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other. — 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
For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“And we had met at last in this same cave of greenery, while the summer night hung round us heavy with love,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“If a man keeps the law, I know he is a lover of his neighbour. But he is not a lover because… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“There is nothing eternal but that which loves and can be loved, and love is ever climbing towards the consummation when such… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Oh, I believe that there is no away; that no love, no life, goes ever from us; it goes as He went,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“To know that she could not be near God in peace and love without fulfilling certain mental conditions — that he would… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“It is not alone the first beginnings of religion that are full of fear. So long as love is imperfect, there is… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I wish I had [made that song]. No, I don't That would be to take it from somebody else. But it's mine… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“There are women," returned my uncle, "some of them of the most admired, who are slaves to a demoniacal love of power.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“For, when we say that God is Love, do we teach men that their fear of him is groundless? No. As much… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had forgotten… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Then, with a horror of pitiful amazement, she saw a great cross marked in two cruel stripes on his back; and the… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“If any one thinks I am unfaithful to human fact, and overcharge the description of this child, I on my side doubt… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“These things cannot be loved. The best man hates them most; the worst man cannot love them. But are these the man?… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“When once to a man the human face is the human face divine, and the hand of his neighbour is the hand… — 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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
![“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 that.' 'What makes it yours?' 'I love it so.' 'Does loving a thing make it yours?' 'I think so, Mother -- at least more than anything else can. . . . Love makes the only myness,' said…” quote by George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/722/george-macdonald-295_love_i-wish-i-had-made-that-song-no-i-don-t-t_35103.jpg)
