George MacDonald quotes - page 3

To try to be brave is to be brave. (George MacDonald)
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. View quote
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When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. View quote
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The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission. View quote
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To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good. View quote
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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. View quote
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Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes. View quote
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Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire. View quote
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A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer. View quote
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It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. View quote
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The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is - not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself. (George MacDonald)
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. View quote
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Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. View quote
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It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. View quote
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There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing. View quote
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It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again. View quote
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Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw. View quote
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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. View quote
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Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken. View quote
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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. View quote
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Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable. (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. View quote
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I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one. View quote
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Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. View quote
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But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest. View quote
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