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George MacDonald
Profession : Novelist
Birth : December 10, 1824
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If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
George MacDonald
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
George MacDonald
Attitudes are more important than facts.
George MacDonald
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
George MacDonald
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
George MacDonald
The principle part of faith is patience.
George MacDonald
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
George MacDonald
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
George MacDonald
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
George MacDonald
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
George MacDonald
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
George MacDonald
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
I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
George MacDonald
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
George MacDonald
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
George MacDonald
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
George MacDonald
Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.
George MacDonald
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