George MacDonald Quotes

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

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Sympathy, Work

  Tags in Self, Thinking

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Assumption, Reservation

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

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Preparation

• It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Moment

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

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Happy

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

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Power

• The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Deserves, Acceptance

• The principle part of faith is patience.

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith, Patience

• Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Love

• Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Clergyman, Kingdom

• Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

  George MacDonald

  Topics in God

  Tags in Man

• It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

  George MacDonald

  Topics in God

  Tags in Self, Thinking

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

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Death, Fear

• It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Care

• You can’t live on amusement. It is the froth on water – an inch deep and then the mud.

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself, Amusement

• To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Love, Trust

• If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Gem, Cast, Into, Would, Friend, Give, Giving, Heart, Thought, Even, Flood, Should, Instead, Loving, Angel

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

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Receiving, Giving, Forgiveness

• 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

  Topics in Politics

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

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Age, Funny

George MacDonald (41)

Birth:	10th December, 1824
Death:	18th September, 1905
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Novelist, Poet

About

George MacDonald was born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He was a Scottish novelist and poet. He wrote several novels include: The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, Lilith, The Princess and Curdie, Sir Gibbie, David Elginbrod, The Day Boy and the Night Girl, The Lost Princess, Mary Marston, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, The Gifts of the Child Christ, Alec Forbes of Howglen, and Warlock O' Glenwarlock. His poetry collection include: Within and Without, Exotics, Dramatic and Miscellaneous Poems, Diary of an Old Soul, The Threefold Cord, Scotch Songs and Ballads.

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