Quotes from George MacDonald

The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

Which of us is other than a secret to all but God!

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.

As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.

A voice is in the wind I do not know A meaning on the face of the high hills Whose utterance I cannot comprehend. A something is behind them: that is God.

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

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.

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

In moments of doubt I cry, 'Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?' 'Whence then came thy dream?' answers Hope.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.