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There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

George MacDonald
Literature, Great Things, Willing
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.6322, e-artnow

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.

George MacDonald
Children, Party, 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.3043, e-artnow

There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.

George MacDonald
Slave, Creator, Creatures
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.10191, Delphi Classics

No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather!

George MacDonald
Heart, Hair, Heaven
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.399, Regent College Publishing

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

George MacDonald
Wise, Eye, Fool
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.10035, Delphi Classics

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

George MacDonald
Sad, Beauty, Together
George MacDonald (1872). “Within and Without”, p.141

To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.

George MacDonald
Thankfulness, Thanks, Good Things
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.4223, e-artnow

Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

George MacDonald
Left Alone, Forsaken, Left
George Macdonald (2016). “At the Back of the North Wind”, p.68, George Macdonald

All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.

George MacDonald
Life, Wisdom, Mind

Which of us is other than a secret to all but God!

George MacDonald
Secret
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

Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.

George MacDonald
Love, Heart, Caring
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.2406, e-artnow

To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.

George MacDonald
Cleansing, Baths, Sin
George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons”, p.228, Regent College Publishing

But there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's - not the Shadow's. Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!

George MacDonald
Creating, Light, Darkness
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.1569, e-artnow

There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.

George MacDonald
Faith, Done
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.9068, Delphi Classics

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear

George MacDonald
Faith, Christian, Fear
George MacDonald (2015). “SIR GIBBIE & DONAL GRANT: The Baronet’s Song and The Shepherd’s Castle (Adventure Classic)”, p.215, e-artnow

Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase of flowers. If I may not, let me think how nice they would be and bury myself in my work. I do not think that the road to contentment lies in despising what we have not got. Let us acknowledge all good, all delight that the worlds holds, and be content without it.

George MacDonald
Summer, Nice, Lying
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.8582, e-artnow

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

George MacDonald
May
George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Poetry of George MacDonald: A Book of Strife, in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul + Rampolli: Growths from a Long-planted Root + A Hidden Life Collection and Other Poems”, p.683, e-artnow

You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.

George MacDonald
Thinking, Duty, Ifs
George MacDonald (2012). “The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes —”, p.214, tredition

The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.

George MacDonald

Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

George MacDonald
Evil, Slaying, Annihilation
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.1525, e-artnow

Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.

George MacDonald
Thinking, Wells, Comfortable
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.532, e-artnow

Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.

George MacDonald
Believe, Farewell, Evil
George Macdonald (2016). “Phantastes”, p.249, George Macdonald

I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.

George MacDonald
Horse, Writing, Draws
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.14183, e-artnow

I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although any one sixpence is as good as any other sixpence, not twenty lambs would do instead of one sheep whose face you knew. Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one any more . Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight.

George MacDonald
Beautiful, Mean, Eye
"George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection".

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

George MacDonald
Men, Next, Firsts
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.1919, e-artnow

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