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George Macdonald Quotes

“Foolish is the man, and there are many such men, who would rid himself or his fellows of discomfort by setting the world right, by waging war on the evils around him, while he neglects that integral part of the world where lies his business, his first business, namely, his own character and conduct.”

God Christian Faith Gospel George Macdonald

Book:Hope of the Gospel

Source: Hope of the Gospel

“It is not the hysterical alone for whom the great dash of cold water is good. All who dream life, instead of living it, require some similar shock.”

Shock Dreaming George Macdonald What S Mine S Mine

Book:Complete Works of George MacDonald

Source: Complete Works of George MacDonald

“I never had been by any means a book-worm; but the very outside of a book had a charm to me. It was a kind of sacrament—an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace; as, indeed, what on God's earth is not?”

Book Lovers Quotes George Macdonald

Book:The Portent

Source: The Portent

“A man who dreams, and knows that he is dreaming, thinks he knows what waking is; but knows it so little, that he mistakes, one after another, many a vague and dim change in his dream for an awaking. When the true waking comes at last, he is filled and overflowed with the power of its reality. So, likewise, one who, in the darkness, lies waiting for the light about to be struck, and trying to conceive, with all the force of his imagination, what the light will be like, is yet, when the reality flames up before him, seized as by a new and unexpected thing, different from and beyond all his imagining. He feels as if the darkness were cast to an infinite distance behind him.”

Light Waking George Macdonald

Book:The Portent

Source: The Portent