783 Quotes by George MacDonald

Light-leaved acacias, by the door, Stood up in balmy air, Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore, And breathed a perfume rare.

The secret of your own heart you can never know; but you can know Him who knows its secret.

Then I remembered that night is the fairies’ day, and the moon their sun; and I thought – Everything sleeps and dreams now: when the night comes, it will be different.

Nobody can be a real princess – do not imagine you have yet been anything more than a mock one – until she is a princess over herself, that is, until, when she finds herself unwilling to do the thing that is right, she makes herself do it. So long as any mood she is in makes her do the thing she will be sorry for when that mood is over, she is a slave, and not a princess.

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain – if only they be large enough.

Would it not be better to reject it altogether if it not be fit to be believed heart and soul?

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home.

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up.

But there is no veil like light – no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth.