Top 25 Quotes by George MacDonald of 380 - Page 11

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

George MacDonald

Father, Enlargement, Limits

George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13004, Delphi Classics

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

George MacDonald

Book, Library, Grows

George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.5844, Delphi Classics

When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awe-inspiring loving-kindness.

George MacDonald

God, Kindness, Lying

When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.

George MacDonald

Feelings, Gone, Felt

George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.6439, e-artnow

I am an emptiness for Thee to fill; my soul a cavern for Thy sea

George MacDonald

Sea, Soul, Caverns

George MacDonald (1893). “The Poetical Works of George MacDonald (Volumes I and II)”, p.10, Library of Alexandria

Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

George MacDonald

Beautiful, Art, Wickedness

Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.

George MacDonald

Stars, Eye, Night

George Macdonald (2015). “MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.

George MacDonald

Light, Extinction, Guides

George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.7896, Delphi Classics

In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.

George MacDonald

Hate, Lying, Heart

George MacDonald, Craig Yoe (1980). “The Golden Key and Other Stories”, p.73, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.

George MacDonald

Mistake, Soul, Care

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

George MacDonald

Book, Writing, Thinking

George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.1227, e-artnow

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

George MacDonald

Thinking, Desire, Longing

George MacDonald (2015). “ADELA CATHCART – The Complete Fantasy Tales Series: The Light Princess, The Shadows, Christmas Eve, The Giant’s Heart, The Broken Swords, The Cruel Painter, The Castle and many more”, p.129, e-artnow

Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by?" — "No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in quite another way from that. It would not be the least use to you or me either if I were to make you know me in that way. It would be but to know the sign of me — not to know me myself.

George MacDonald

Knowing, Giving, Would Be

Phebe A. Curtiss, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hans Christian Andersen (2017). “Down the Chimney: 100+ Most Treasured Christmas Novels & Stories in One Volume (Illustrated): The Tailor of Gloucester, Little Women, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Heavenly Christmas Tree…”, p.4884, e-artnow

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.

George MacDonald

Love

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

George MacDonald

Folly, My Own, Ugliness

George MacDonald (2015). “George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more”, p.347, e-artnow

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

George MacDonald

Uplifting, Men

George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.5986, Delphi Classics

By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.

George MacDonald

Faith, Mean

You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

George MacDonald

Long, Refuse, Dies

George MacDonald (2015). “Lilith”, p.176, Booklassic

The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the borders of the sunshine broke against their stems, or swept in long streams through their avenues, washing with brighter hue all the leaves over which it flowed; revealing the rich brown of the dacayed leaves and fallen pine-cones, and the delicate greens of the long grasses and tiny forests of moss that covered the channel over which it passed in the motionless rivers of light.

George MacDonald

Morning, Sunshine, Light

George Macdonald (2013). “The Princess Treasury”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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, and be better.

George MacDonald

Way, Care, Grows

George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.162, e-artnow

Philosophy is really homesickness.

George MacDonald

Philosophy, Homesickness

George MacDonald (1996). “A Dish of Orts”

I believe in fate, never in chance.

George MacDonald

Believe, Fate, Chance

George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.9068, Delphi Classics

There is an aching that is worse than any pain.

George MacDonald

Pain, Regret

But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.

George MacDonald

Would Be, Belief, Indignant

George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “Life Essential: The Hope of the Gospel”, p.93, Regent College Publishing