Lilith Quotes

“Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. Once with his father, he is to himself of no more account.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:self sorrow

“Only by the reflex of other lives can he ripen his specialty, develop the idea of himself, the individuality that distinguishes him from every other.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:self

“When a man dreams his own dream, he is the sport of his dream; when Another gives it him, that Other is able to fulfil it.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:self dream

“The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:fear

“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

“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

“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

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