George MacDonald

“Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.”

“I must show the blacksmith and the shopkeeper once more--two years after marriage--time long enough to have made common people as common to each other as the weed by the roadside; but these are not common to each other yet, and never will be. They will never complain of being _desillusionnes_, for they have never been illuded. They look up each to the other still, because they were right in looking up each to the other from the first. Each was, and therefore each is and will be, real.”

“Letty's first false step was here: she said to herself _I can not_, and did not. She lacked courage--a want in her case not much to be wondered at, but much to be deplored, for courage of the true sort is just as needful to the character of a woman as of a man.”

“ספר הוא דלת שנפתחת פנימה , ולכן דלת שמובילה החוצה.”

“סליחה היא הנתינה וכך קבלת החיים.”

“כמה מוזר פחד המוות הזה! אנחנו אף פעם לא נבהלים בשקיעה.”

“יש אנשים שרואים דברים שאחרים לא רואים.”

“תענוגות מעטים יכולים לשוות לנוכחותו של מי שאנו סומכים עליו לחלוטין.”

“ההכנה הטובה ביותר לעתיד היא ההווה שנראה היטב והחובה האחרונה שנעשתה.”

“כשנותנים בך אמון, זוהי מחמאה גדולה יותר מאשר כשאוהבים אותך.”

“כשאתה אוהב אתה קרוב יותר לזולתך מאשר כשאתה נאהב.”

“We must remember that God is not occupied with a grand toy of worlds and suns and planets, of attractions and repulsions, of agglomerations and crystallizations, of forces and waves; that these but constitute a portion of his workshops and tools for the bringing out of righteous men and women to fill his house of love withal.”

“There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end”

“I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it. Indeed, my ideal soon became my life; whereas, formerly, my life had consisted in a vain attempt to behold, if not my ideal in myself, at least myself in my ideal.”

“Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.”

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

“For essential beauty is infinite, and, as the soul of Nature needs an endless succession of varied forms to embody her loveliness, countless faces of beauty springing forth, not any two the same, at every one of her heart-throbs, so the individual form needs an infinite change of its environments, to enable it to uncover all the phases of its loveliness.”

“I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.”

“When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.”

“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.”