Tag: George MacDonald

Where did you come from, baby dear?

Out of the everywhere into here.

George MacDonald

I think the reason children get tired of their toys so soon is just that it is against human nature to be really interested in what is of no use. If you say that a beautiful thing is always interesting, I answer, that a beautiful thing is of the highest use. Is not the diamond that flashes all its colours into the heart of a poet as useful as the diamond with which the glazier divides the sheets of glass into panes for our windows?

George MacDonald

Trust to God to weave your little thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

George MacDonald

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.

George MacDonald

“In the midst of life we are in death,” said one; it is more true that in the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow — a word for that which cannot be — a negation, owing the very idea of itself to that which it would deny. But for life there could be no death. If God were not, there would not even be nothing. Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

George MacDonald

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

George MacDonald