Best Quotes by George MacDonald (Top 10)
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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
George MacDonald
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I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.
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Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
George MacDonald
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Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
George MacDonald
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Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
George MacDonald
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It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
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A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
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If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
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It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
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People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.
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More George MacDonald Quotes
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He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.
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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
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I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.
George MacDonald
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You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
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This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.
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My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.
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God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.
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There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.
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It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
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Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
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There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.
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We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
George MacDonald
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The principle part of faith is patience.
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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
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Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
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Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
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It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
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Attitudes are more important than facts.
George MacDonald
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It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet.
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No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
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Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.
George MacDonald
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Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
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To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
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Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.
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