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Quotes by

George MacDonald

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. – George MacDonald

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. – George MacDonald

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. – George MacDonald

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. – George MacDonald

To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power. – George MacDonald

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. – George MacDonald

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. – George MacDonald

The principle part of faith is patience. – George MacDonald

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. – George MacDonald

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. – George MacDonald

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

Attitudes are more important than facts. – George MacDonald

Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. – George MacDonald

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly. – George MacDonald

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. – George MacDonald

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. – George MacDonald

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it. – George MacDonald

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. – George MacDonald

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