7 George MacDonald Quotes on Life

George MacDonald quotes on life

3. Where did you come from baby dear? Out of the everywhere into the here.

5. Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husks.

17. As the thoughts move in the mind of a man, so move the worlds of men and women in the mind of God...the offspring of his imagination. Man is but a thought of God.

26. Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

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

31. It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

34. No man can order his life, for it comes flowing over him from behind ... The one secret of life and development is not to devise and plan but to fall in with the forces at work - to do every moment's duty aright - that being the part in the process allotted to us: and let come - not what will, for there is no such thing - but what the eternal thought wills for each of us, has intended in each of us from the first.