4 George MacDonald Quotes on Character

George MacDonald quotes on character

9. That which is in a man, not that which lies beyond his vision is the main factor in what is about to befall him: the operation upon him is the event.

10. We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

14. 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.

19. A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. If my drawing, on the other hand, is so far from being a work of art that it needs THIS IS A HORSE written under it, what can it matter that neither you nor your child should know what it means? It is there not so much to convey a meaning as to wake a meaning. - But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant! - Not what he pleases, but what he can. If he be not a true man, he will draw evil out of the best; we need not mind how he treats any work of art! If he be a true man, he will imagine true things; what matter whether I meant them or not?