“And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.”
“He (God) loves what I shall be.”
“We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.”
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)
“But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.”
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