What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Except the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus make a man sick of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow... — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but… — 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
As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The face of the Son of God, who, instead of accepting the sacrifice of one of his creatures to satisfy his justice… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His. — 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
