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George Macdonald Inspirational Quotes (205)

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In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality what men call death is but a shadow.
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The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine.
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For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.
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They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'
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To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.
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If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.
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All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.
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Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
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Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
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No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.
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I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.
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Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?
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As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.
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To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
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A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
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Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.
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Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! - just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject.
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I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.
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Oh, I believe that there is no away that no love, no life, goes ever from us it goes as He went, that it may come again, deeper and closer and surer, and be with us always, even to the end of the world.
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The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law it is fully come when God's will is our will.
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On Good Friday Jesus died But rose again at Eastertide.....Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us not from suffering but from ourselves, not from injustice...but from being unjust. He died that we might live - but live as he lives, by dying as he died who died to himself.
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Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.
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All haste implies weakness.
George MacDonald
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