there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.


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Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks ...
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She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down...
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
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The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.
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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