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George MacDonald Quotes

Best Quotes by George MacDonald (Top 10)

  1. To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
  5. 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.
  6. It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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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