Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet. George MacDonald More Quotes by George MacDonald More Quotes From George MacDonald Philosophy is really homesickness. George MacDonald homesickness philosophy I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that. George MacDonald ignorance knows lying The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born. George MacDonald mother father children He (God) loves what I shall be. George MacDonald growth god-love I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else. George MacDonald morality christian mind One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up George MacDonald rights may giving Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence. George MacDonald music-is silence heaven A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician. George MacDonald party men children As I said to Speedicut, it's hell in the diplomatic. George MacDonald diplomatic hell said You will be dead so long as you refuse to die. George MacDonald refuse dies long Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! - just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody; George MacDonald strange mother book Will is not unfrequently weakness. George MacDonald weakness Only because uplifted in song, was I able to endure the blaze of the dawn. George MacDonald able dawn song The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. George MacDonald future preparation done If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies. George MacDonald christian heaven hands When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire. George MacDonald fire art moving As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart. George MacDonald degrees feelings heart Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom. George MacDonald thieves literature men Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death! George MacDonald pauses true-life blessed The principal part of faith is patience. George MacDonald