George MacDonald Quotes

d. 1905 Scotland

George MacDonald (December 10, 1824 – September 18, 1905) was a Scottish author and Christian universalist minister most famous for his poetry, fairy tales and fantasy novels.

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Also known as: George Macdonald, MacDonald, George

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Trust to God to weave your little thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean.

The Fantastic Imagination (1893)

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.

One difference between God's work and man's is, that, while God's work cannot mean more than he meant, man's must mean more than he meant.

The Fantastic Imagination (1893)

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

The Marquis of Lossie (1877)

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.

Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879)

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.

At the Back of the North Wind (1871)

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.

Mary Marston (1881)

Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other worse, which is the greatest of differences that could possibly exist between them.

The Princess and Curdie (1883)

God never gave a man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.

He brings hidden things out of the light of his own being into the light of ours.

Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879)

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else.

Lilith (1895)

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.

The Fantastic Imagination (1893)

I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.

In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

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

Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.

All is loss that comes between us and Christ.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George MacDonald (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.