George MacDonald Quotes - Page 4

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• Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.

  George MacDonald

  Faith, Doors, Doubt

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13031, Delphi Classics

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• One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

  George MacDonald

  Anniversary, Marriage, Years

  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.8795, e-artnow

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• When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

  George MacDonald

  Sympathy, Thinking, Age

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.2761, Delphi Classics

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• I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

  George MacDonald

  Gaps, Immortality, Middle

  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.4585, e-artnow

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• We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

  George MacDonald

  Life, Inspire, Wells

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.3540, Delphi Classics

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• You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.

  George MacDonald

  People, Soul, Criticism

  George MacDonald (1878). “The Marquis of Lossie”

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• One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.

  George MacDonald

  Religion, Causes, World

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• I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

  George MacDonald

  Children, Writing, Fifty

  George MacDonald, (2013). “The Day Boy and the Night Girl (Fantasy and Horror Classics)”, p.4, Read Books Ltd

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• Beauty and sadness always go together.

  George MacDonald

  Beauty, Sadness, Together

  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.95, e-artnow

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• When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.

  George MacDonald

  Heart, Thinking, Shapes

  George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

  George MacDonald

  Silence, Heaven, Music Is

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• The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins and feeling nothing of their dread hatefulness, have, consistent with their low condition, constantly taken this word concerning the Lord to mean that he came to save them from the punishment of their sins.

  George MacDonald

  Taken, Mean, Men

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• To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

  George MacDonald

  Fall, Home, Intellectual

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13217, Delphi Classics

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• The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.

  George MacDonald

  God, Mean, Simple

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• They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'

  George MacDonald

  Use, May, Pressure

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• Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.

  George MacDonald

  Truth, Corresponding

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• This is a wise, sane Christian faith: that a man commit himself, his life, and his hopes to God; that God undertakes the special protection of that man; that therefore that man ought not to be afraid of anything.

  George MacDonald

  Christian, Wise, Men

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• No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Burdens Of Life, Worry

  George Macdonald (2015). “Annals Of A Quiet Neighbourhood”, p.142, George Macdonald

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• Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

  George MacDonald

  Forgiveness, Receiving Love, Giving

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.1838, Delphi Classics

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• As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Humanity, Christ

  George MacDonald (1891). “Unspoken Sermons: Third Series”, p.47, CCEL

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• Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

  George MacDonald

  Ideas, Existence, Nothingness

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13002, Delphi Classics

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• Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

  George MacDonald

  Listening, Stories, Delight

  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.1631, e-artnow

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• I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

  George MacDonald

  Mind, Speech, Fit

  George MacDonald (2015). “Lilith”, p.13, Booklassic

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• To try to be brave is to be brave.

  George MacDonald

  Brave, Trying, Be Brave

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1961, e-artnow

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• He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

  George MacDonald

  Children, Men, Discipline

  George MacDonald (2012). “Hope of the Gospel”, p.121, tredition

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