Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration. George MacDonald More Quotes by George MacDonald More Quotes From George MacDonald But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide. George MacDonald extinctionguideslight The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children. George MacDonald animalbirdchildren Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. George MacDonald frowningfatherenemy But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the feelings of peace, awe and reverence that it inspires. George MacDonald agefeelingsinspire But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it. George MacDonald writingbookthinking Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing. George MacDonald encouragementdoubtmay Man's rank is his power to uplift. George MacDonald upliftingmen God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven. George MacDonald atheistheavenfather By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith. George MacDonald faithmean Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by?" — "No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in quite another way from that. It would not be the least use to you or me either if I were to make you know me in that way. It would be but to know the sign of me — not to know me myself. George MacDonald knowingwould-begiving I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself. George MacDonald ignorancesaidmen Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure. George MacDonald should-havemenlong I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years! George MacDonald doorsyearsthinking Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing. George MacDonald life The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended. George MacDonald regionsforcelying I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow. George MacDonald wipesadnessrose I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation. George MacDonald demandperfectionself You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great. George MacDonald dutyifsthinking I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done. George MacDonald painbeautifulyears 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 christianwisemen
