783 Quotes by George MacDonald

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

Difficulty adds to result, as the ramming of powder sends the bullet the further.

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

Religion is life essential.

You doubt because you love truth.

Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.

Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.