What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult. George MacDonald More Quotes by George MacDonald More Quotes From George MacDonald In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, George MacDonald sorrow joy father 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 pride hero fall If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure. George MacDonald determine grows sin Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. George MacDonald decay age reality 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 horse draws writing 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 marriage anniversary years Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not. George MacDonald hypocrite trying looks It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. George MacDonald care worry men 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 home men art A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint. George MacDonald devil saint growth When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over George MacDonald age sympathy thinking Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God. George MacDonald one-day soul believe 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 slaying annihilation evil Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken. George MacDonald forsaken left-alone left 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 felt gone feelings A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer. George MacDonald atoms freedom men As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book. George MacDonald library grows book To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing. George MacDonald thanks good-things thankfulness Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings. George MacDonald christian god wings 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
