783 Quotes by George MacDonald

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

He never married. But he wrote a good book.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because.

Her heart – like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away – was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.

What is called a good conscience is often but a dull one that gives no trouble when it ought to bark loudest;.

With a fiction it was the same. Mine was the whole story. For I took the place of the character who was most like myself, and his story was mine; until, grown weary with the life of years condensed in an hour, or arrived at my deathbed, or the end of the volume, I would awake, with a sudden bewilderment, to the consciousness of my present life, recognising the walls and roof around me, and finding I joyed or sorrowed only in a book.

Spiritual Murder It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice. It is spiritual murder, the worst, to hate, to brood over the feeling that excludes, that, in our microcosm, kills the image, the idea of the hated.

Never tell a child ‘you have a soul.’ Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

These are they who gather grace, as the mountain-tops the snow, to send down rivers of water to their fellows.