783 Quotes by George MacDonald

Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.

To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.

For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father's face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving?

As cold as everything looks in winter, the sun has not forsaken us. He has only drawn away for a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.

The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid.

Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.