George MacDonald quotes - page 2

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)
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. View quote
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What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near? View quote
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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! View quote
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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another. View quote
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I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking. View quote
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God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home. View quote
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I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. View quote
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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! View quote
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Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner. View quote
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My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am. (George MacDonald)
Where did you come from baby dear? Out of the everywhere into the here.... Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the skies as I came through. View quote
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It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. View quote
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Past tears are present strength. View quote
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there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away. View quote
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Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand. View quote
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Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet. View quote
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Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on. View quote
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Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing. View quote
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We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. View quote
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To have what we want is riches but to do without is power. (George MacDonald)
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud. View quote
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Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence. View quote
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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. View quote
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You doubt because you love truth. View quote
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