George MacDonald Quotes

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

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

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

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

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.