George MacDonald - Best Quotes

Wisdom

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.

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.

Trust

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

George MacDonald

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

Trust

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

George MacDonald

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Sympathy

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

George MacDonald

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

Power

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

George MacDonald

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

Future

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

George MacDonald

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

Friendship

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

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.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life.

George MacDonald

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life.

Faith

The principle part of faith is patience.

George MacDonald

The principle part of faith is patience.

Death

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

George MacDonald

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

Best

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

George MacDonald

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

Best

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

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.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: 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.

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

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

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

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

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

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.

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life.

The principle part of faith is patience.

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

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

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.