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
God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same… — 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
We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to… — 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)
