George MacDonald Quotes

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart.

The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart.

The measure of biblical truth that we have grasped is not determined by the size of our heads, but the breadth of our hearts.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you think about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination is absurd. But the President didn't say he thought about his selection. He said this: "I know her heart." Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers.

The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.

There are some things that can be learned by the head, but Christ crucified can only be learned by the heart

Truth is first felt in the heart before the mind. Those that look for truth through the mind before the heart will never find Truth.

Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make the world a fit place to live.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.

Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.

To know God, know your heart (conscience). After you know your heart, you will learn to see God in all things. Truth can only be seen by those with Truth in them.

You'll be able to gain insight and reach a conclusion only by applying the powers of mind, intellect, soul, heart, spirit, and imagination. This is what 'looking at something spiritually' really means.

Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.