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“Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other worse, which is the greatest of differences that could possibly exist between them.”

George MacDonald book The Princess and Curdie

The Princess and Curdie (1883)

“Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call the reality? — not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier?”

George MacDonald book Phantastes

Phantastes (1858)

“What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good.”

George MacDonald book Phantastes

Phantastes (1858)

“The man that feareth, Lord, to doubt,
In that fear doubteth thee.”

George MacDonald

The Disciple
The Disciple and Other Poems (1867)

“What distressed me most — more even than my own folly — was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?”

George MacDonald book Phantastes

Phantastes (1858)

“Where did you come from baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into the here….
Where did you get your eyes so blue?
Out of the skies as I came through.”

George MacDonald book At the Back of the North Wind

At the Back of the North Wind (1871)

“That is always the way with you men; you believe nothing the first time; and it is foolish enough to let mere repetition convince you of what you consider in itself unbelievable.”

George MacDonald book Phantastes

Phantastes (1858)

“A true friend is forever a friend.”

George MacDonald

The Marquis of Lossie (1877)

“"But tell me how it is that she could be so beautiful without any heart at all — without any place even for a heart to live in." "I cannot quite tell," she said; "but I am sure she would not look so beautiful if she did not take means to make herself look more beautiful than she is. And then, you know, you began by being in love with her before you saw her beauty … But the chief thing that makes her beautiful is this: that, although she loves no man, she loves the love of any man; and when she finds one in her power, her desire to bewitch him and gain his love (not for the sake of his love either, but that she may be conscious anew of her own beauty, through the admiration he manifests), makes her very lovely—with a self-destructive beauty…"”

George MacDonald book Phantastes

On the Alder Tree
Phantastes (1858)

“Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.”

George MacDonald

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 152

“It is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood.”

George MacDonald book Phantastes

Phantastes (1858)

“Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.”

George MacDonald book Phantastes

Phantastes (1858)

“Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.”

George MacDonald

Source: Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879), Ch. 25

“All is loss that comes between us and Christ.”

George MacDonald

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 95

“Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.”

George MacDonald

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 148

“But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that he takes them from them, and tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true!”

George MacDonald

Donal Grant (1883)

“Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of painful 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 book Phantastes

Phantastes (1858)

“Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! — just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody; for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject.”

George MacDonald book At the Back of the North Wind

At the Back of the North Wind (1871)

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

George MacDonald

The Marquis of Lossie (1877)

“You would not think any duty small,
If you yourself were great.”

George MacDonald

Willie's Question
The Disciple and Other Poems (1867)