Best George MacDonald Wisdom
- To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly… Avenge
- But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in… All
- I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. Child
- A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer. Atom
- All that is not God is death. All
- To try to be brave is to be brave. Brave
- Philosophy is really homesickness. Homesickness
- The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still,… Born
- There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in… Beings
- Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that… Afford
- I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better,… Better
- Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to… All
- You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live… Building
- I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside… Abandonment
- Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken. Alone
- What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?… All
- I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to… All
- And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay. Came
- I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow. Death
- But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of… All
- I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my… All
- It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word… Inspirational
- For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place… Depends
- The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but… Best
- It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a… Act
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