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You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

George MacDonald
Strength, Being Strong, Courage
George MacDonald (1904). “The Day Boy and the Night Girl”, p.48, Library of Alexandria

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

George MacDonald
Silence, Heaven, Music Is

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

George MacDonald
Encouragement, Doubt, May
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.1471, e-artnow

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; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

George MacDonald
Anniversary, Marriage, Years
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.8795, e-artnow

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 same blessedness.

George MacDonald
God, Mean, Simple

It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

George MacDonald
Believe, Want, Absurd
George MacDonald (2016). “Unspoken Sermons, completed: MacDonald's Works”, p.266, VM eBooks

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

George MacDonald
Cottages, Littles, Palaces

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

George MacDonald
Ideas, Existence, Nothingness
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13002, Delphi Classics

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

George MacDonald
People, Trying, Way
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.1127, e-artnow

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

George MacDonald
Men, Burdens Of Life, Worry
George Macdonald (2015). “Annals Of A Quiet Neighbourhood”, p.142, George Macdonald

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

George MacDonald
Men, Doe, New Life
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.2995, Delphi Classics

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

George MacDonald
Hypocrite, Trying, Looks
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.1231, e-artnow

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

George MacDonald
Forgiveness, Receiving Love, Giving
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.1838, Delphi Classics

I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

George MacDonald
Mind, Speech, Fit
George MacDonald (2015). “Lilith”, p.13, Booklassic

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

George MacDonald
Listening, Stories, Delight
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.1631, e-artnow

What God may hereafter require of you, you must not give yourself the least trouble about. Everything He gives you to do, you must do as well as ever you can, and that is the best possible preparation for what He may want you to do next. If people would but do what they have to do, they would always find themselves ready for what came next.

George MacDonald
People, Giving, Preparation
George MacDonald (1880). “Cheerful Words”

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

George MacDonald
Men, Mind, Christ
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.13421, e-artnow

To try to be brave is to be brave.

George MacDonald
Brave, Trying, Be Brave
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.1961, e-artnow

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

George MacDonald
Sympathy, Thinking, Age
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.2761, Delphi Classics

Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.

George MacDonald
Jesus, Heart, Giving
George MacDonald (1893). “The Poetical Works of George MacDonald (Volumes I and II)”, p.333, Library of Alexandria

I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

George MacDonald
Gaps, Immortality, Middle
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.4585, e-artnow

Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.

George MacDonald
Self, Next, Sides
George Macdonald (2016). “Sir Gibbie”, p.30, George Macdonald

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

George MacDonald
Religious, Stupidity, Religion
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.5907, Delphi Classics

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

George MacDonald
God Love, Hell, Lows
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.2626, e-artnow

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.

George MacDonald
Eye, Love Is, Wells
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.8257, e-artnow

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