Quote

But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.

George MacDonald

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
Author
Cleric
Journalist
Minister
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
Extinction
Guide
Guides
Following
Light
Even

More quotes by George MacDonald

Image
Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.
George MacDonald
Image
You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)
George MacDonald
Image
Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
George MacDonald
Image
There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.
George MacDonald
Image
To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.
George MacDonald
Image
There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.
George MacDonald
Image
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
George MacDonald
Image
In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality what men call death is but a shadow.
George MacDonald
Image
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
George MacDonald
Image
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
George MacDonald
Image
One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.
George MacDonald
Image
In Giving, a man receives more than he gives and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
George MacDonald
Image
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.
George MacDonald
Image
I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.
George MacDonald
Image
The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.
George MacDonald
Image
In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.
George MacDonald
Image
The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him or say, to make him think things for himself.
George MacDonald
Image
Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.
George MacDonald
Image
In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.
George MacDonald
Image
In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.
George MacDonald