George MacDonald Love Quotations

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

You doubt because you love truth.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou honour'st his obedience, he thy law. Into thy secret life-will he doth see; Thou fold'st him round in live love perfectly- One two, without beginning, without end; In love, life, strength, and truth, perfect without a flaw.

Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.

Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.

Why should my love be powerless to help another?

He (God) loves what I shall be.