783 Quotes by George MacDonald

A man is enslaved to anything he cannot part with which is less than himself.

A man’s real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

The darkness knows neither the light nor itself; only the light knows itself and the darkness also. None but God hates evil and understands it.

God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation – a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth. On and on from fact Divine He advances, until at length in His Son Jesus He unveils His very face.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God’s wings.

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.

Perhaps his only vice was self-satisfaction – which few will admit to be a vice; remonstrance never reached him; to himself he was ever in the right, judging himself only by his sentiments and vague intents, never by his actions; that these had little correspondence never struck him; it had never even struck him that they ought to correspond.

God is Love. Love is the deepest depth, the essence of his nature, at the root of all his being.

If a man keeps the law, I know he is a lover of his neighbour. But he is not a lover because he keeps the law: he keeps the law because he is a lover. No heart will be content with the law for love. The law cannot fulfil love.