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Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
George MacDonald
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
George MacDonald
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
George MacDonald
Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
George MacDonald
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
George MacDonald
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
George MacDonald
Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
George MacDonald
People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.
George MacDonald
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
The principle part of faith is patience.
George MacDonald
Attitudes are more important than facts.
George MacDonald
It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart's choice.
George MacDonald
Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.
George MacDonald
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
To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
George MacDonald
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
A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.
George MacDonald
You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.
George MacDonald
Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again.
George MacDonald
A true friend is forever a friend.
George MacDonald
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
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