783 Quotes by George MacDonald

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talking or brooding about it, much less in making, for form's sake, a parade of it. Better and healthier to forget it, and look to tomorrow.The celebrated British stiff upper lip, the resolve to conceal emotion which is not only embarrassing and useless, but harmful, is just plain commons sense