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Things Quotes by George MacDonald
- They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried…
- Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet,…
- When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory…
- One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and…
- Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.
- There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.
- But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy…
- If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God…
- There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.
- It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.
- The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but…
- Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.
- Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.
- There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of…
- Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life…
- To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be…
- In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope.
- In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have;…
- The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the…
- I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be…
- One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them;…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle