George MacDonald Quotes

“The man who grounds his action on another's cowardice, is essentially a coward himself.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:action cowardice

“Doubt . . . may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:action doubt

“To try to be brave is to be brave.”

― George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind

topic:bravery

“Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

topic:eyes

“There is no slave but the creature that wills against its creator.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:slavery

“Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:will

“But come; loss now will be gain then! To wait is harder than to run, and its meed is the fuller.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:waiting loss

“What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her?”

― George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind

topic:waiting

“You know nothing about whereness. The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:home

“It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

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