Quotes from George MacDonald

Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.

It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh.

He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.

The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Love is liking someone better than you like yourself.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

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.