George MacDonald Quotes

“the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

topic:heart pain

“Past tears are present strength”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

topic:strength past

“if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

topic:understanding justice

“Even with her altered complexion and her face of dislike; disenchanted of the belief that clung around her; known for a living, walking sepulchre, faithless, deluding, traitorous; I felt notwithstanding all this, that she was beautiful.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

topic:beauty

“Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool of you that you will know yourself for one, and so begin to be wise!”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:wisdom

“Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:good evil

“The part of philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:good evil

“Seeing is not believing—it is only seeing.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

topic:belief sight

“People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

topic:belief

“I saw now that a man alone is but a being that may become a man—that he is but a need, and therefore a possibility.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:loneliness need

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