“All is loss that comes between us and Christ.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
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Famous George MacDonald Quotes
“Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.”
Source: Unspoken Sermons
“Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.”
Source: Unspoken Sermons
“As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.”
Source: Unspoken Sermons: Third Series
“I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.”
Source: Lilith
“Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!”
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
“Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.”
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: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.”
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
“How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.”
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
“Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.”
Source: Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III
“Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.”
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
“You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.”
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
“Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.”
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
“Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.”
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
“The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.”
“We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.”
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
“Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.”
Source: SIR GIBBIE & DONAL GRANT: The Baronet’s Song and The Shepherd’s Castle (Adventure Classic)
“The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.”
Source: A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul
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: MALCOLM & THE MARQUIS’S SECRET: Complete Marquise of Lossie Collection (Adventure Classic): The Fisherman's Lady
“As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
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
“Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.”
Source: Phantastes (Illustrated): A Faerie Romance for Men and Women – Fantasy Classic from the Author of Lilith, Adela Cathcart, The Princess and the Goblin, At the Back of the North Wind & Dealings with the Fairies
“It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.”
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
“We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.”
Source: Stories for Girls: Lovingly Adapted for Twenty-First Century Children
Source: MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest
Source: The Princess and the Goblin
“It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.”
Source: MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest
Source: MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest