George MacDonald Soul Quotations

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

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

One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and revelation they are-if he be such, I say, he will stand, for more than a moment, speechless with something akin to that which made the morning stars sing together.

Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.

I am an emptiness for Thee to fill; my soul a cavern for Thy sea

There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion.

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.

You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.