783 Quotes by George MacDonald

All haste implies weakness.

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.

Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other worse, which is the greatest of differences that could possibly exist between them.

There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.

Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion.