George MacDonald Quotes

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

You just have to stoke that furnace throughout the day.

We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

'Let the Great World Spin' at the end talks a lot about connections and light and possibility and the fact that the world doesn't end. Even in the darkest times, we have to go on.

I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very important for me. You lost your parents, but a new baby comes. It's like the cycle of fashion.

They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.

My purpose is to refuel, refresh and rejuvenate moms.

If we keep continuously putting up good at-bats, the next guy will come through.

By the end of the day, I just want someone to feed me.

I see candles as varied things. They give a warm glow, and fire purifies.

Obviously, the goal is just to keep working and not run out of it.

Food is very powerful.

Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.