George MacDonald

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. ↗

— George MacDonald

#being #compliment #greater #loved #than

Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw. ↗

— George MacDonald

#love #love

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

— George MacDonald

#meditation #solitude #mac

Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans. ↗

— George MacDonald

#god-s-will #mac

All that is not God is death. ↗

— George MacDonald

#god #life #death

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book. ↗

— George MacDonald

#fate #reading #mac

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer. ↗

— George MacDonald

#freedom

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity) ↗

— George MacDonald

#christian-living

Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil. ↗

— George MacDonald

#mr-rave #death

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

— George MacDonald

#the-future #inspirational