Meaning of “Thy breath comes to me whispering an impossible…”

Phantastes, a short lyric embedded in the 1858 fantasy novel; Project Gutenberg #325. The excerpt is poetic and belongs to the fictional narrative rather than MacDonald’s direct autobiography.

Gitanjali, poem 13; Project Gutenberg #7164. The “him” is the poem’s spiritual addressee, so the record preserves devotional context instead of converting the sentence into a secular promise.

Unspoken Sermons, Series Two, ‘The Last Farthing,’ Project Gutenberg #9057. ‘There must be hope while there is existence’ occurs in MacDonald's explicitly Christian argument that where existence remains there must be God, whom he describes as forever good. It is nineteenth-century theology about divine goodness and ultimate restoration, not secular prognosis or clinical mental-health evidence.

As a Man Thinketh, “Visions and Ideals.”

As a Man Thinketh, chapter “Visions and Ideals”; Allen follows with natural images of the oak in the acorn and the bird in the egg.

What All The World’s A-Seeking, Part III, “The Unfoldment,” printed page 75 in the represented 1896 page-text witness, cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #14312. Trine says “the true joy of existence comes from living to one’s highest” immediately after urging the reader to “live to your highest.” It remains historical New Thought / conduct-of-life counsel rather than a claim that striving automatically removes hardship or produces happiness in every circumstance.