George MacDonald

Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again ↗

— George MacDonald

#failure #regret #life

But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love. ↗

— George MacDonald

#hope #pain #life

In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope. ↗

— George MacDonald

#dreams

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

#angels #cast #even #flower #friend

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us. ↗

— George MacDonald

#humanity #inspirational #religion #theology #wonder

All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words. ↗

— George MacDonald

#poetry #words #imagination

You have tasted of death now,” said the old man. “Is it good?” “It is good,” said Mossy. “It is better than life.” “No,” said the old man: “it is only more life. ↗

— George MacDonald

#death

But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!" Not what he pleases, but what he can. ↗

— George MacDonald

#reading #writing #imagination

The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop. ↗

— George MacDonald

#death #faith #immortality #death

Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind. ↗

— George MacDonald

#thought #imagination