The quotations of

George MacDonald

Scottish writer and Christian minister

1824–1905

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

The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
- Education
- Thinking
A man may well himself discover truth in what he wrote; for he was dealing all the time with things that came from thoughts beyond his own.
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
- Writing
The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
- Knowledge
If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
- Reading
- Writing
A fairytale, like a butterfly or a bee, helps itself on all sides, sips at every wholesome flower, and spoils not one.
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
- Writing
I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.
From a letter to his father, quoted in George MacDonald and His Wife (1924) by Greville MacDonald
- Christianity
- Religion
Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call the reality? — not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier?
Phantastes (1858)
- Beauty
What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good.
Phantastes (1858)
- Good & Evil
Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other worse, which is the greatest of differences that could possibly exist between them.
The Princess and Curdie (1883)
- Character

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