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“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.”
― George MacDonald

“No story ever really ends, and I think I know why. ”
― George MacDonald

“Philosophy is really homesickness.”
― George MacDonald

“You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.”
― George MacDonald, The Day Boy and the Night Girl

“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

“I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.”
― George MacDonald

“Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.”
― George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind

“No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it - no place to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather.”
― George MacDonald