783 Quotes by George MacDonald

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.

In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.

When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.