The quotations of

George MacDonald

Scottish writer and Christian minister

1824–1905

24 quotes, most often on Writing, Truth & Lies and God.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
The Marquis of Lossie, Chapter LXXI.
- Truth & Lies
To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.
The Marquis of Lossie (1877)
- Truth & Lies
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.
The Marquis of Lossie (1877), Chapter XLII.
- Truth & Lies
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 624
- Youth
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men.
- Politics
The whole trouble is that we won’t let God help us.
The Marquis of Lossie, Chapter XXVII.
- God
God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 250.
- Christianity
In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
Mary Marston, Chapter V.
- Charity
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 148
- Christianity
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening,
the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husks.
The Marquis of Lossie (1877)
- Age
A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory. He must be an artist indeed who can, in any mode, produce a strict allegory that is not a weariness to the spirit.
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
- Art
- Writing
A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean.
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
- Art
God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation, — a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth.
Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879), Ch. 31: A Conscience
- God
- Truth & Lies
Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.
From “Life” in Unspoken Sermons Series II (1886)
- Life & Death
- Philosophy
One difference between God’s work and man’s is, that, while God’s work cannot mean more than he meant, man’s must mean more than he meant.
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
- Art
- God

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