{"author":"George MacDonald","author_id":"George+MacDonald","total_quotes":146,"quotes":[{"text":"A devil - 'A power that lives against its life.","author":"George MacDonald","tags":["against-life","devil"],"id":135,"author_id":"George+MacDonald"},{"text":"The principle part of faith is patience.","author":"George MacDonald","tags":["faith","principle","part "],"id":2403,"author_id":"George+MacDonald"},{"text":"Seek not that your sons and your daughters should not see visions, should not dream dreams; seek that they should see true visions, that they should dream noble dreams. Such out-going of the imagination is one with aspiration, and will do more to elevate above what is low and vile than all possible inculcations of morality.","author":"George MacDonald","tags":["ethics","imaginations"],"id":19801,"author_id":"George+MacDonald"},{"text":"It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others.","author":"George MacDonald","tags":["desire","love","romance"],"id":20569,"author_id":"George+MacDonald"},{"text":"How old are you?'Ten,' answered Tangle.'You don't look like it,' said the lady.'How old are you, please?' returned Tangle.'Thousands of years old,' answered the lady.'You don't look like it,' said Tangle.'Don't I? I think I do. Don't you see how beautiful I am!","author":"George MacDonald","tags":["beauty","old-age"],"id":21567,"author_id":"George+MacDonald"},{"text":"O, lack and doubt and fear can only comeBecause of plenty, confidence, and love!They are the shadow-forms about their feet,Because they are not perfect crystal-clearTo the all-searching sun in which they live.Dread of its loss is Beauty’s certain seal!","author":"George MacDonald","tags":["evil","virtue","weakness"],"id":27998,"author_id":"George+MacDonald"},{"text":"It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father's will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free.","author":"George MacDonald","tags":["loss","rest","will"],"id":29123,"author_id":"George+MacDonald"},{"text":"He had the fault of thinking too well of himself--which who has not who thinks of himself at all, apart from his relation to the holy force of life, within yet beyond him? It was the almost unconscious, assuredly the undetected, self-approbation of the ordinarily righteous man, the defect of whose righteousness makes him regard himself as upright, but the virtue of whose uprightness will at length disclose to his astonished view how immeasurably short of rectitude he comes. At the age of thirty, Godfrey Wardour had not yet become so displeased with himself as to turn self-roused energy upon betterment; and until then all growth must be of doubtful result. … His friends notwithstanding gave him credit for great imperturbability; but in such willfully undemonstrative men the evil burrows the more insidiously that it is masked by a constrained exterior.","author":"George MacDonald","tags":["pride","self-righteousness"],"id":31797,"author_id":"George+MacDonald"},{"text":"Heed not thy feeling. Do thy work.","author":"George MacDonald","tags":["theology"],"id":39435,"author_id":"George+MacDonald"},{"text":"As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.","author":"George MacDonald","tags":["joy","music","sorrow","truth"],"id":40735,"author_id":"George+MacDonald"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":146,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}