Top 25 Quotes by George MacDonald of 380 - Page 15

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

George MacDonald

Real, May, Impossible

George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.560, Delphi Classics

My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to be like life itself - not to be created by any argument. Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill. So, better and worse, I went on, till I came to a little clearing in the forest.

George MacDonald

Pain, Lying, Tired

George MacDonald (1858). “Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women”, p.92

I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.

George MacDonald

Beautiful, Pain, Years

George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics

What would the Living One have me do?

George MacDonald

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.13331, e-artnow

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

George MacDonald

Growth, Decay, Growing

"Within and Without: A Dramatic Poem".

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

George MacDonald

Wings, Shadow, Affliction

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.10063, e-artnow

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

George MacDonald

Men, Thieves, Literature

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.10702, e-artnow

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.

George MacDonald

Life, Dirty, Heart

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.597, e-artnow

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

George MacDonald

Prayer, Light, Wish

George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

George MacDonald

Book, Library, Body

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.1413, e-artnow

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near? Even with her altered complexion and face of dislike; disenchanted of the belief that clung around her; known for a living, walking sepulcher, faithless, deluding, traitorous; I felt, notwithstanding all this, that she was beautiful. Upon this I pondered with undiminished perplexity.

George MacDonald

Beautiful, Faces, Belief

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.353, e-artnow

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

George MacDonald

Rights, Giving, May

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

George MacDonald

God, Heart, Thinking

George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.12931, Delphi Classics

Somehow, I can't say how, it tells me that all is right; that it is coming to swallow up all cries.

George MacDonald

Cry, I Can

George Macdonald (2016). “At the Back of the North Wind”, p.63, George Macdonald

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

George MacDonald

Soul, Belief, Humans

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.5205, e-artnow

I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was in it.

George MacDonald

Sunset, Dark, Knowing

George Macdonald (2015). “MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest”, p.673, Simon and Schuster

Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other worse, which is the greatest of differences that could possibly exist between them.

George MacDonald

Two, Differences, People

George MacDonald (2015). “The Princess and Curdie”, p.46, Xist Publishing

But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that he takes them from them, and tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true!

George MacDonald

Children, Men, Trying

George MacDonald (1978). “The World of George Macdonald: Selections from His Works of Fiction”, Shaw

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

George MacDonald

Dream, Life Is, Ought

George MacDonald (2015). “Phantastes (Illustrated): A Faerie Romance for Men and Women – Fantasy Classic from the Author of Lilith, Adela Cathcart, The Princess and the Goblin, At the Back of the North Wind & Dealings with the Fairies”, p.197, e-artnow

Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! - just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody; for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject.

George MacDonald

Mother, Book, Strange

J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1926, e-artnow

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

George MacDonald

Men, Should Have, Long

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.6403, e-artnow

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

George MacDonald

Choices, Literature, Difficulty

George MacDonald (2015). “SIR GIBBIE & DONAL GRANT: The Baronet’s Song and The Shepherd’s Castle (Adventure Classic)”, p.217, e-artnow

There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

George MacDonald

Cheating, Simple, Soul

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.371, e-artnow

Love me, beloved; Hades and Death Shall vanish away like a frosty breath; These hands, that now are at home in thine, Shall clasp thee again, if thou art still mine; And thou shalt be mine, my spirit's bride, In the ceaseless flow of eternity's tide, If the truest love thy heart can know Meet the truest love that from mine can flow. Pray God, beloved, for thee and me, That our sourls may be wedded eternally.

George MacDonald

Art, Home, Hands

George MacDonald, “Within And Without: Part Iv: A Dramatic Poem”