“In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.”
Source: The Golden Key and Other Stories
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Famous George MacDonald Quotes
Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more
“In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.”
Source: A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul
“Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.”
Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more
Source: Hope of the Gospel
“There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“I believe in fate, never in chance.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“Do not measure God's mind by your own.”
Source: David Elginbrod
“And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.”
Source: Alec Forbes of Howglen
“I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.”
“The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.”
Source: God's Words to His Children: Sermons Spoken and Unspoken
“The mind of the many is not the mind of God.”
Source: George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more
“Which of us is other than a secret to all but God!”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more
Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more