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
Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for… — 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