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A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou honour'st his obedience, he thy law. Into thy secret life-will he doth see; Thou fold'st him round in live love perfectly- One two,

A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou honour'st his obedience, he thy law. Into thy secret life-will he doth see; Thou fold'st him round in live love perfectly- One two, without beginning, without end; In love, life, strength, and truth, perfect without a flaw.

George MacDonald
Love Life, Son, Law
George MacDonald (2006). “A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul”, p.209, ReadHowYouWant.com

All haste implies weakness.

George MacDonald
Weakness, Haste
George MacDonald (1868). “Robert Falconer”, p.120

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

George MacDonald
Ambition, Evil, Shadow
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.6556, Delphi Classics

Alas! how easily things go wrong!

George MacDonald
Alas
George MacDonald (1874). “Phantastes: A Faerie Romance”, p.86

All that man sees has to do with man. Worlds cannot be without an intermundane relationship. The community of the centre of all creation suggests an interradiating connection and dependence of the parts. Else a grander idea is conceivable than that which is already embodied.

George MacDonald
Men, Ideas, Community
George MacDonald (1954). “Visionary Novels: Lilith, Phantastes”

It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father's will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free.

George MacDonald
Father, Heart, Loss
George MacDonald (2016). “The Hope of the Gospel: MacDonald's Works”, p.90, VM eBooks

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

George MacDonald
Real, Independent, Names
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.202, Delphi Classics

If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.

George MacDonald
Reader, Ifs
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13487, Delphi Classics

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 of the Master unfolds itself.

George MacDonald
Men, Trying, Masters
George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

George MacDonald
Health, Exercise, Appreciate

Some thinkers would feel sorely hampered if at liberty to use no forms but such as existed in nature, or to invent nothing save in accordance with the laws of the world of the senses; but it must not therefore be imagined that they desire escape from the region of law.

George MacDonald
Law, Desire, Liberty
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.14179, e-artnow

He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.

George MacDonald
Class, Cities, Faithful
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.2730, Delphi Classics

For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.

George MacDonald
War, Men, Deep Water
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.12942, e-artnow

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

George MacDonald
Lying, Heart, Men
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.5088, e-artnow

She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.

George MacDonald
Hurt, Knowing, Tears
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.2392, e-artnow

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

George MacDonald
Animal, Men, Thinking
George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that went plumb-down. "That is the way," he said. "But there are no stairs." "You must throw yourself in. There is no other way.

George MacDonald
Men, Caves, Earth
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.2287, e-artnow

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

George MacDonald
Book, Men, House
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.8875, e-artnow

The holy spirit of the Spring Is working silently.

George MacDonald
Spring, Spirit, Holy Spirit
George MacDonald (1871). “Violin songs. Songs of the days and nights. A book of dreams. Roadside poems. Poems for children”, p.99

As I said to Speedicut, it's hell in the diplomatic.

George MacDonald
Hell, Said, Diplomatic

I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.

George MacDonald
Christian, Mind, Morality

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.

George MacDonald
Missing, Rope, Crafts
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.9720, e-artnow

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

George MacDonald
Believe, Seeing
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.4197, Delphi Classics

Only because uplifted in song, was I able to endure the blaze of the dawn.

George MacDonald
Song, Dawn, Able
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.420, e-artnow

Difficulty adds to result, as the ramming of powder sends the bullet the further.

George MacDonald
Add, Bullets, Powder
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.2779, e-artnow

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