783 Quotes by George MacDonald

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.

In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.

This is a wise, sane Christian faith: that a man commit himself, his life, and his hopes to God; that God undertakes the special protection of that man; that therefore that man ought not to be afraid of anything.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.