Quotes by George MacDonald, Mary Marston

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She could now be sad without losing a jot of hope. Nay, rather, the least approach of sadness would begin at once to wak — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
his mother, who had never been able to manage him, sent him to school to get rid of him, lamented his absence till he re — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
she had no stay, no root in herself yet. Well do I know not one human being ought, even were it possible, to be enough f — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
Show me the person ready to step from any, let it be the narrowest, sect of Christian Pharisees into a freer and holier — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
The clouds were gathering over Mary, too--deep and dark, but of altogether another kind from those that enveloped Letty: — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
Love and marriage are of the Father's most powerful means for the making of his foolish little ones into sons and daught — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
I must show the blacksmith and the shopkeeper once more--two years after marriage--time long enough to have made common — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
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 — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
But Mary had not come into the world to be sad or to help another to be sad. Sorrowful we may often have to be, but to i — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
Society is neither my master nor my servant, neither my father nor my sister; and so long as she does not bar my way to — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
the truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength. — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
Like some of the rest of us, she never reflected how balefully her evil mood might operate; and that all things work for — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would have turned from he — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
It had been well if he had been left with only a wounded heart, but in that heart lay wounded pride. He hid it carefully — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
She was simply a young woman who believed that the man called Jesus Christ is a real person, such as those represent him — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
Never pupil was more humble, never pupil more obedient; thinking nothing of himself or of anything he had done or could — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
The main obstacle to success he soon discovered to be Letty's exceeding distrust of herself. I would not be mistaken to — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
There is hardly a limit to the knowledge and sympathy a man may have in respect of the finest things, and yet be a fool. — George MacDonald, Mary Marston
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _to do_. Action _may_ — George MacDonald, Mary Marston