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There was no pride, pomp, or circumstance of glorious war in this poor, domestic strife, this seemingly sordid and unheroic, miserably unheroic, yet high, eternal contest!


George MacDonald

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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