George MacDonald Quotes

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.

Right awareness is awareness of one's own being in its totality: all that is good and all that is bad. But as you become aware, the bad starts disappearing - just as when you bring light into the room, the darkness disappears. When light is in the room, darkness cannot exist there. Sin is darkness, forgetfulness, unconsciousness.

In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.

From birth to death you go on living, groping in darkness with no light - and you could have created the light. You cannot find it in the scriptures; nobody can hand it to you. It is not purchased or sold; it is nontransferable. But you can create it - you can put all your energies together. You can start living consciously from this very moment.

I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.

To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light

There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does not always equate to evil Light does not always bring good

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering.

Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.

There is not a single darkness if you life that God cannot bring His light upon.

It would not take a monster to destroy a monster - but light, light to drive out darkness.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

You must go into the dark in order to bring forth your light.

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

There is no glimpse of the light without walking the path. You can't get it from anyone else, nor can you give it to anyone. Just take whatever steps seem easiest for you, and as you take a few steps it will be easier for you to take a few more.

You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.

In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.

I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.

I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I.

When you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost.