We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough. George MacDonald More Quotes by George MacDonald More Quotes From George MacDonald In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, George MacDonald sorrowjoyfather I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it. George MacDonald prideherofall If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure. George MacDonald determinegrowssin Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. George MacDonald decayagereality I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one. George MacDonald horsedrawswriting 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 marriageanniversaryyears Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not. George MacDonald hypocritetryinglooks It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. George MacDonald careworrymen The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His fatherhood. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, “Thou art my refuge, because Thou art my home”. George MacDonald homemenart A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint. George MacDonald devilsaintgrowth When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over George MacDonald agesympathythinking Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God. George MacDonald one-daysoulbelieve Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil. George MacDonald slayingannihilationevil Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken. George MacDonald forsakenleft-aloneleft When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone. George MacDonald feltgonefeelings A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer. George MacDonald atomsfreedommen As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book. George MacDonald librarygrowsbook To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing. George MacDonald thanksgood-thingsthankfulness Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings. George MacDonald christiangodwings We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey. George MacDonald may
