George MacDonald Quotes

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

  George MacDonald

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• 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

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

  George MacDonald

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

  George MacDonald

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

  George MacDonald

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

  George MacDonald

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• I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

  George MacDonald

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

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Death, Fear

• Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

  George MacDonald

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• Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

  George MacDonald

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• Attitudes are more important than facts.

  George MacDonald

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• Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

  George MacDonald

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• Afflictions are but the shadows of God’s wings.

  George MacDonald

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• A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

  George MacDonald

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• 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

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• 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

• There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing

  George MacDonald

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• 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

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  Tags in Receiving, Giving, Forgiveness

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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