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No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.

No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.

George MacDonald
Thinking, Stories, Ends

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

George MacDonald
Men, Views, Infidelity
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.11028, e-artnow

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

George MacDonald
Prayer, Thinking, Answers
George MacDonald (2015). “A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing

One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.

George MacDonald
Religion, Causes, World

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

George MacDonald
Differences, Growth, Dying
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.31, Regent College Publishing

...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.

George MacDonald
Home, Wind, House
George MacDonald (2015). “At the Back of the North Wind (Illustrated): Children's Classic Fantasy Novel from the Author of Adela Cathcart, Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, The Light Princess & Dealings with the Fairies”, p.27, e-artnow

We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which He is always giving as fast as He can get us able to take it in.

George MacDonald
Giving, Waiting, Able
George MacDonald (1867). “Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood”, p.135

What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?

George MacDonald
Doe, Want, Want Me
George MacDonald (2016). “Unspoken Sermons, completed: MacDonald's Works”, p.69, VM eBooks

The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.

George MacDonald
Jesus, Father, Miracle
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.12950, Delphi Classics

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

George MacDonald
Lying, Men, Doe
George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

George MacDonald
Mold, Fingers, Loveliness
George MacDonald (1989). “Discovering the character of God”, Bethany House Pub

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

George MacDonald
Successful, Men, Haste
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.647, e-artnow

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

George MacDonald
Christian, Men, Thinking
George MacDonald (2007). “Unspoken Sermons”, p.401, Cosimo, Inc.

As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

George MacDonald
Mind, Common, Genuine
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.5197, e-artnow

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

George MacDonald
Atheist, If There Is A God, Atheism
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.838, e-artnow

LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with him, upholding, warming, delighting, teaching him-making life a good thing to him. God gives him himself, though the man knows it not.

George MacDonald
God, Teaching, Men
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.13137, e-artnow

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

George MacDonald
Future, Preparation, Done

What can money do to console a man with a headache?

George MacDonald
Money, Men, Headache
George MacDonald (1883). “Writings: With Illustrations on Wood and Steel]”

Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.

George MacDonald
Sorry, Princess, Opportunity
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.4208, Delphi Classics

All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.

George MacDonald
Life, Eye, One Day
George Macdonald (2013). “The Princess Treasury”, p.466, Simon and Schuster

A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.

George MacDonald
Men, Bondage
George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons”, p.115, Regent College Publishing

One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and revelation they are-if he be such, I say, he will stand, for more than a moment, speechless with something akin to that which made the morning stars sing together.

George MacDonald
Morning, Stars, 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.5396, e-artnow

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

George MacDonald
Doors, White, Joy

Those that hope little cannot grow much.

George MacDonald
Littles, Grows
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13288, Delphi Classics

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

George MacDonald
Beautiful, Nature, Principles
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.1681, Delphi Classics

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