The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.


George Macdonald

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The best preparation for the future, is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
GEORGE MACDONALD
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
The DA is about building on the good of the present for a better future. We believe Cape Town can be...
HELEN ZILLE
We both agreed that we have to talk about the present and the future now.
GERHARD SCHROEDER
The future is made of the same stuff as the present
SIMONE WEIL
Consumers still remain optimistic about the future despite having some concerns about the present. T...
STEVEN WOOD
Anyone who lives in the future languishes in the present
ROGER ROSENBLATT
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when th...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA
There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now
EUGENE O'NEILL
My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ
Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibil...
GELSEY KIRKLAND
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That...
DONALD TRUMP
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
This cannot be about what's coming in the future. It has to be about what's here now, in the present...
ELAINE PHILLIPS
Recognize your history, in the present, to know your future.
HELENE LAGERBERG
The future teaches you to be alone, the present to be afraid and cold
MANIC STREET PREACHERS
When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE
Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ
It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS...
The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a myste...
KATE CHOPIN
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON
The past is behind, learn from it.The future is ahead, prepare for it.The present is here, live it.
THOMAS S. MONSON
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present...
BIL KEANE
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in ...
JIM BISHOP
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...
FREDERICK DOUGLAS
Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
JOHN MAXWELL
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND
The past, the present, the future: migration is what matters.
GUILLERMO ALONSO
Because my life is so full, I'm usually focused on the present and not the future. But now I have to...
LISA ROSE
Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your fut...
TONY CAMPOLO
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
JOAN RIVERS
The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
BLAISE PASCAL
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fool...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
OSCAR WILDE
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by th...
EMMET FOX
The times are not so bad as they seem; they couldn't be
JAY FRANKLIN
Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA
Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down.
MARTY RUBIN
It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is...
MARCEL PROUST
You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
MARTY RUBIN
Jesus came into the world not to condemn the world, but to save the world. When we come with condemn...
TONY CAMPOLO
I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about ...
PAMELA ANDERSON
DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has dee...
AMBROSE BIERCE
We have to live in the present. I was very focused and I knew what I had to do to beat him. At the m...
TOMMY ROBREDO
The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot inthe present, ... But asalways, you just ne...
BOB HAMMOND
He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and un...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON
Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH
Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO
I'd sooner make fresh mistakes today than correct the errors of the past.
MARTY RUBIN
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...
JAMES THURBER
He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future
QUEVEDO
The past is behind, learn from it.
The future is ahead, prepare for it.
The present is here,...
THOMAS S. MONSON
Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as ...
EPICURUS
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if w...
THICH NHAT HANH
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
SENECA
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. ...
ABRAHAM MASLOW
We have within ourselvesEnough to fill the present day with joy,And overspread the future years with...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The Revenant - Just one great, phenomenal picture is show. So if there is machines for to put you in...
DEYTH BANGER
Best Life of Lives I've Ever Lived :
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans,
August 15, 2016
PETRA HERMANS
aimed at developing Christian professionals who will use their skills to transform urban communities...
TONY CAMPOLO
Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us ...
TONY CAMPOLO
Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON
The present indictment is based entirely on crimes committed since the beginning of 1999 in Kosovo.
LOUISE ARBOUR
there are reasons to think that history might be an imperfect guide to the present situation.
NORMAN WILLIAMS
Most of your reactions are echoes from the past. You do not really live in the present.
GAELIC PROVERB
Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what t...
ARNOLD H. GLASGOW
Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time....
WILLIAM JAMES
I think what's very disturbing about the present crisis is that there are a number of things going o...
DESMOND LACHMAN
The present crisis has been the most predictable, the most senseless, boring and short-lived of all ...
VYACHESLAV NIKONOV
This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling S...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
That's certainly under review at the present time.
BILL MISKELL
San Francisco at the present time is like the crater of a volcano, around which are camped tens of t...
JACK LONDON
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of ...
AGNES REPPLIER
The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot in
the present, ... But as
always, y...
BOB HAMMOND
Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you
PHAEDRUS
We want a deal. They're here. They're engaged. There's no time like the present.
PJ CROWLEY
The present will not long endure
PINDAR
The events show how desperate the present royal regime is. It is becoming paranoid. The movement is ...
DHRUBA ADHIKARY
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine....
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
are in the present deployment condition, even an unintentional, even a small incident can spark a ch...
ABDUL SATTAR
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
In hours of bliss we oft have met:They could not always last;And though the present I regret,I'm gra...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN
The present situation in other political parties is very bad. We should not allow the problems confr...
SONIA GANDHI
endure the pain of the present to make tomorrow better.
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI
Everybody has their own ideas of Shangri-La ... I tried to teach myself to enjoy the present, enjoy ...
MARK KNOPFLER
At the present time there is not enough consensus amongst the players about how we can reach this am...
PETER MANDELSON
I believe it would be a waste of time to continue with the present application for a reasons excepti...
DAVID THOMAS

More George Macdonald

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the c...
GEORGE MACDONALD
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerfu...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cult...
GEORGE MACDONALD
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
GEORGE MACDONALD
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.
GEORGE MACDONALD
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the c...
GEORGE MACDONALD
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The principal part of faith is patience.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
GEORGE MACDONALD
I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
GEORGE MACDONALD
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of toda...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
GEORGE MACDONALD
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.
GEORGE MACDONALD
God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God w...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
GEORGE MACDONALD
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face th...
GEORGE MACDONALD
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he kn...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Attitudes are more important than facts.
GEORGE MACDONALD
What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would....
GEORGE MACDONALD
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
GEORGE MACDONALD
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
GEORGE MACDONALD
It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.
GEORGE MACDONALD
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
GEORGE MACDONALD
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
GEORGE MACDONALD
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of...
GEORGE MACDONALD
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
GEORGE MACDONALD
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
GEORGE MACDONALD
I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
GEORGE MACDONALD
You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangel...
GEORGE MACDONALD
The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if t...
GEORGE MACDONALD
O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything bu...
GEORGE MACDONALD
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
GEORGE MACDONALD
You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half bra...
GEORGE MACDONALD
And when heart and head go together, nothing can stand before them
GEORGE MACDONALD
The best preparation for the future, is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
GEORGE MACDONALD
I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear.
GEORGE MACDONALD
And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and b...
GEORGE MACDONALD
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? Three angels gave me at once a kiss.
GEORGE MACDONALD
To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Alas! how easily things go wrong! A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long, And then comes a mist ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is...
GEORGE MACDONALD
The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray; Gone is the sun, come are the stars, ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to tru...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Some misapprehension, I say, some obliquity, or some slavish adherence to old prejudices, may thus c...
GEORGE MACDONALD
The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evi...
GEORGE MACDONALD
God has not cared that we should anywhere have assurance of His very words; and that not merely, per...
GEORGE MACDONALD
CHRISTMAS DAY Thou hast not made, or taught me, Lord, to care For times and seasons -- but this on...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Christmas Eve A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Tho...
GEORGE MACDONALD
No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 Gather my broken ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles Some natures will endure an immense amount of misery before the...
GEORGE MACDONALD
There are those who in their very first seeking of it are nearer the kingdom of Heaven than many who...
GEORGE MACDONALD
How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere e...
GEORGE MACDONALD
From thine, as then, the healing virtue goes Into our hearts -- that is the Father's plan. From he...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of All Souls Do you think the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says His yoke is...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 If I mista...
GEORGE MACDONALD
I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritua...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 Do those who say, "Lo he...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Where every day is not the Lord's, the Sunday is his least of all. There may be a sickening unrealit...
GEORGE MACDONALD
EPIPHANY Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything... He who seeks the Fat...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 If God said, "I forgi...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330 The kingdom of heaven is not come e...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 It has been well said that no man ever sank und...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Matthias the Apostle There is more hid in Christ than we shall ever learn, here or there ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
But we must believe that Judas, who repented even to agony, who repented so that his high-prized lif...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 The principal part of faith is patienc...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951 How often we look upo...
GEORGE MACDONALD
There is more hid in Christ than we shall ever learn, here or there either; but they that begin firs...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles Continuing a short series on prayer: Hunger may drive the runaw...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemorati...
GEORGE MACDONALD
You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873 When I trouble myse...
GEORGE MACDONALD
As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists i...
GEORGE MACDONALD
God is ever seeking to get down to us -- to be the divine man in us. And we are ever saying, "That b...
GEORGE MACDONALD
I cannot imagine a much greater misfortune for a man (not to say a clergyman) than not to know, or k...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 To realize that yo...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951 To the dim and bewilde...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Christmas Eve They were all looking for a king To slay their foes, and lift them high; Thou cam'st,...
GEORGE MACDONALD
The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares abou...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abb...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 I would not favour a fiction to keep a ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Instead of so knowing Christ that they have Him in them saving them, they lie wasting themselves in ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
They were in a better condition, acknowledging only a terror above them flaming on that unknown moun...
GEORGE MACDONALD
The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through Him we might know His Father and ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 He who forgives not is not forgiv...
GEORGE MACDONALD
That no obedience but a perfect one will satisfy God, I hold with all my heart and strength; but tha...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 [God desires] not that He may say to them...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 Continuing a short series on authenticity: There ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
EPIPHANY What should I think of my child, if I found that he limited his faith in me and hope fr...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Ab...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thé...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Continuing a short series on topic...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012 The Son of God suffered unto the...
GEORGE MACDONALD
The pure eye for the true vision of another's claims can only go with the loving heart. The man who ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Do you think that the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says that His yoke is easy, His b...
GEORGE MACDONALD
The Gospels contain what the Apostles preached -- the Epistles, what they wrote after the preaching....
GEORGE MACDONALD
Do you so love the truth and the right that you welcome, or at least submit willingly to, the idea o...
GEORGE MACDONALD
No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him
GEORGE MACDONALD
To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.
GEORGE MACDONALD
If, instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart o...
GEORGE MACDONALD
…for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it;
GEORGE MACDONALD
This is in the very nature of things: obedience alone places a man in the position in which he can s...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Humility is essential greatness, the inside of grandeur.
GEORGE MACDONALD
I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; f...
GEORGE MACDONALD
However strange it may well seem, to do one's duty will make any one conceited who only does it some...
GEORGE MACDONALD
The main practical difficulty, with some at least of the Peace-makers, is how to carry themselves to...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Ther...
GEORGE MACDONALD
You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.
GEORGE MACDONALD
There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.
GEORGE MACDONALD
I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!
GEORGE MACDONALD
I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothi...
GEORGE MACDONALD
What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Then came the reflection, how little at any time could a father do for the wellbeing of his children...
GEORGE MACDONALD
I am always hearing. . . the sound of a far off song. I do not exactly know where it is, or what it ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
All that is not God is death.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The one principle of hell is – “I am my own
GEORGE MACDONALD
Obedience is the opener of eyes.
GEORGE MACDONALD
She could now be sad without losing a jot of hope. Nay, rather, the least approach of sadness would ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
She had turned thought and feeling into life, into reality, into creation. They speak of the _creati...
GEORGE MACDONALD
punishment had not been spared--with best results in patience and purification
GEORGE MACDONALD
Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down...
GEORGE MACDONALD
there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your ma...
GEORGE MACDONALD
We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else,...
GEORGE MACDONALD
The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour goo...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go...
GEORGE MACDONALD
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty...
GEORGE MACDONALD
As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleas...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Past tears are present strength.
GEORGE MACDONALD
My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mi...
GEORGE MACDONALD
One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.
GEORGE MACDONALD
If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injur...
GEORGE MACDONALD
It is by loving and not by being loved, that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
GEORGE MACDONALD
I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold u...
GEORGE MACDONALD
My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not;
I think thy answers make me what I am.
GEORGE MACDONALD
We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be t...
GEORGE MACDONALD
And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but coul...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Love me, beloved; Hades and Death
Shall vanish away like a frosty breath;
These hands, tha...
GEORGE MACDONALD
I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible foun...
GEORGE MACDONALD
To try to be brave is to be brave.
GEORGE MACDONALD
It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, w...
GEORGE MACDONALD
The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for co...
GEORGE MACDONALD
In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’
GEORGE MACDONALD
It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had b...
GEORGE MACDONALD
...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.
GEORGE MACDONALD
You had better not open that door.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Godfrey and Hesper made a glorious pair to look at--but would theirs be a happy union?--Happy, I dar...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of t...
GEORGE MACDONALD
We're looking into conserving landfill space. We're looking to generate energy without relying on fo...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cul...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty
GEORGE MACDONALD
God’s finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission
GEORGE MACDONALD
It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing
GEORGE MACDONALD
Where did you get your eyes so blue? / Out of the sky as I came through.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The two pillars of political correctness is willful ignorance and the steadfast refusal to face the ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when to-morrow’s bu...
GEORGE MACDONALD
We've done a better job at getting more complete representation.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Where did you come from, baby dear? / Out of the everywhere into here.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty th...
GEORGE MACDONALD
To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved
GEORGE MACDONALD
Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by th...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Seeing is not believing, it is only seeing,”
George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin
GEORGE MACDONALD
The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Love and marriage are of the Father's most powerful means for the making of his foolish little ones ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
It is not at all a fit place for you," said Clementina.

"Gently, my lady. It is a ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Mary was one who possessed power over her own spirit--rare gift, given to none but those who do some...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes
GEORGE MACDONALD
Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth wit...
GEORGE MACDONALD