George Macdonald Quotes

He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had forgotten it, but was miserable about it, notwithstanding. And this misery was the voice of the great Love that had made him and his wife and the baby and Diamond, speaking in his heart, and telling him to be good. 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. On Mount Sinai, it was thunder; in the cabman's heart it was misery; in the soul of St John it was perfect blessedness.

~ George Macdonald

It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.

~ George Macdonald

The principle part of faith is patience.

~ George Macdonald

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

~ George Macdonald

Timely service like timely gifts is doubled in value.

~ George Macdonald

This is a sane wholesome practical working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God second that God himself takes on the care of that man and third that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything.

~ George Macdonald

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.

~ George Macdonald

Fear is faithlessness.

~ George Macdonald

Attitudes are more important than facts.

~ George Macdonald

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.

~ George Macdonald

The principle part of faith is patience.

~ George Macdonald

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

~ George Macdonald

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

~ George Macdonald

To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power.

~ George Macdonald

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

~ George Macdonald

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

~ George Macdonald

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

~ George Macdonald

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

~ George Macdonald

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

~ George Macdonald