George MacDonald Quotes About Selfishness

Quotes about: Selfishness

• One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

  George MacDonald

  Spiritual, Passion, Selfishness

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.2664, Delphi Classics

• It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is the loving of each other, that originates and perfects and assures their blessedness. I knew that love gives to him that loveth, power over any soul beloved, even if that soul know him not, bringing him inwardly close to that spirit; a power that cannot be but for good; for in proportion as selfishness intrudes, the love ceases, and the power which springs therefrom dies. Yet all love will, one day, meet with its return.

  George MacDonald

  Spring, Two, Giving

  "Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women". Book by George MacDonald, 1858.

• There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.

  George MacDonald

  Selfishness, Redemption, Littles

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.7826, Delphi Classics

• For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father's face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving?

  George MacDonald

  Brother, Children, Father

  George MacDonald (2007). “Unspoken Sermons”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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