Top 25 Quotes by George MacDonald of 380 - Page 13

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

Judging, Religion, Ladders

George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.7411, Delphi Classics

But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.

George MacDonald

Pain, Winter, Suffering

"Complete Works of George MacDonald".

God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.

George MacDonald

Son, Men, Done

George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.5956, Delphi Classics

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

George MacDonald

May, Fairytale, Allegory

George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “The Heart of George MacDonald: A One-Volume Collection of His Most Important Fiction, Essays, Sermons, Drama, and Biographical Information”, p.426, Regent College Publishing

What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.

George MacDonald

Light, Vision, Truth Is

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.10119, e-artnow

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

George MacDonald

Life, Moving On, Strong

How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to live in it.

George MacDonald

Nice, Thinking, People

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.10197, e-artnow

The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

George MacDonald

Children, Animal, Bird

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.3153, e-artnow

But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the feelings of peace, awe and reverence that it inspires.

George MacDonald

Inspire, Feelings, Age

God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.

George MacDonald

Atheist, Father, Heaven

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.13153, e-artnow

I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.

George MacDonald

Desire, Christ, Slave

George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons”, p.80, Regent College Publishing

There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse.

George MacDonald

Oxygen, Rushing, White

George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

George MacDonald

Circles, Humanity, Church

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.1671, e-artnow

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.

George MacDonald

Men, Clouds, Unfinished Work

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

George MacDonald

Weakness

And in thy own sermon, thou That the sparrow falls dost allow, It shall not cause me any alarm; For neither so comes the bird to harm, Seeing our Father, thou hast said, Is by the sparrow's dying bed; Therefore it is a blessed place, And the sparrow in high grace.

George MacDonald

Father, Blessed, Fall

George MacDonald (2015). “THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship”, p.549, e-artnow

Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.

George MacDonald

Men, Differences, Land

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.4192, e-artnow

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

George MacDonald

Lying, Ignorance, Knows

"The Flight of the Shadow".

Moderation is the basis of justice.

George MacDonald

Justice, Moderation, Bases

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

George MacDonald

Truth, Honesty, Lying

George MacDonald, Clive Staples Lewis (1990). “George MacDonald: an anthology”

The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the boarders, searching out new lands into which she may guide her plodding brother. The imagination is the light which redeems from the darkness for the eyes of the understanding. Novalis says, 'The imagination is the stuff of the intellect' -affords, that is, the material upon which the intellect works.

George MacDonald

Brother, Eye, Light

George MacDonald (1883). “The Imagination: And Other Essays”

No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you are not true.

George MacDonald

Waiting, Found, Riddle

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.1423, e-artnow