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Children Quotes by George MacDonald
- I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.
- [God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship," for power alone…
- Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.
- All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the…
- The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and…
- He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men…
- We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of…
- I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.
- 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,…
- The truly wise talk little about religion and are not given to taking sides on doctrinal issues. When they hear people advocating or opposing the…
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon