A Hidden Life and Other Poems Quotes

“But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope,
That one day we shall thank thee perfectly
For pain and hope and all that led or drove
Us back into the bosom of thy love.”
― George MacDonald, A Hidden Life and Other Poems

“O, lack and doubt and fear can only come
Because of plenty, confidence, and love!
They are the shadow-forms about their feet,
Because they are not perfect crystal-clear
To the all-searching sun in which they live.
Dread of its loss is Beauty’s certain seal!”
― George MacDonald, A Hidden Life and Other Poems

“God, and not woman, is the heart of all. But she, as priestess of the visible earth, Holding the key, herself most beautiful, Had come to him, and flung the portals wide. He entered in: each beauty was a glass That gleamed the woman back upon his view.”
― George MacDonald, A Hidden Life and Other Poems

“He walked as in a twilight of the sense,
Which this one day shall turn to tender light.”
― George MacDonald, A Hidden Life and Other Poems