783 Quotes by George MacDonald

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.′ ‘What is that, grandmother?’ ‘To understand other people.

Love makes all safe.

His marriage was of infinitely more salvation to the laird than if it had set him free from all his worldly embarrassments, for it set him growing again – and that is the only final path out of oppression.

It seemed quite natural that the little lady should be there; for many things we never could believe, have only to happen, and then there is nothing strange about them.

A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.

To say a man might disobey and be none the worse would be to say that no might be yes and light sometimes darkness.

Things come to the poor that can’t get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor – one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.

Where is the good of planning upon an “if?” To trust is to get ready, uncle says. Trust is better than foresight.

To judge religion we must have it – not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.