783 Quotes by George MacDonald

Man’s rank is his power to uplift.

I came from God, and I’m going back to God, and I won’t have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

Somehow, I can’t say how, it tells me that all is right; that it is coming to swallow up all cries.

You can’t live on amusement. It is the froth on water – an inch deep and then the mud.

Never wait for fitter time or place to talk to Him. To wait till thou go to church or to thy closet is to make Him wait. He will listen as thou walkest.

The more people trust in God, the less will they trust their own judgments, or interfere with the ordering of events.

Never tell a child ‘you have a soul. Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.’ As we learn to think of things always in this order, that the body is but the temporary clothing of the soul, our views of death and the unbefittingness of customary mourning will approximate to those of Friends of earlier generations.

Verily the God that knows how not to reveal himself, must also know how best to reveal himself! If there be a calling child, there must be an answering Father!

But words are vain; reject them all – They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.