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George Macdonald Inspirational Quotes (205)

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Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.
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By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.
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Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.
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One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.
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Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
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Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor--one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.
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Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other worse, which is the greatest of differences that could possibly exist between them.
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Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.
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The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.
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People must not choose their neighbors they must take the neighbors that God sends them. The neighbor is just the person who is next to you at the moment, the person with whom any business has brought you into contact.
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Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.
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But words are vain reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.
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There is an aching that is worse than any pain.
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You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.
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The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him or say, to make him think things for himself.
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It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.
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God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
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You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)
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I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.
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A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.
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Moderation is the basis of justice.
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I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.
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I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.
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Why should my love be powerless to help another?
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