783 Quotes by George MacDonald

But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

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

The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the feelings of peace, awe and reverence that it inspires.

All that man sees has to do with man. Worlds cannot be without an intermundane relationship. The community of the centre of all creation suggests an interradiating connection and dependence of the parts. Else a grander idea is conceivable than that which is already embodied.

Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.