783 Quotes by George MacDonald

I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

I believe in fate, never in chance.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.

Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.