World Quotes by George MacDonald

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

— George MacDonald

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil…

— George MacDonald

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men…

— George MacDonald

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is…

— George MacDonald

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.

— George MacDonald

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

— George MacDonald

I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!

— George MacDonald

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass,…

— 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

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any…

— George MacDonald

Some thinkers would feel sorely hampered if at liberty to use no forms but such as existed in nature, or to invent…

— George MacDonald

One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of…

— George MacDonald

All that man sees has to do with man. Worlds cannot be without an intermundane relationship. The community of the centre of…

— George MacDonald

If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of…

— George MacDonald

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for…

— George MacDonald

If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could…

— George MacDonald

No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of…

— George MacDonald

All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth…

— George MacDonald

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil…

— George MacDonald

Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase…

— George MacDonald

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

— George MacDonald

Oh, I believe that there is no away; that no love, no life, goes ever from us; it goes as He went,…

— George MacDonald