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George Macdonald Inspirational Quotes (205)

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A true friend is forever a friend.
George MacDonald
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We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.
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But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.
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Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.
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If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.
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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
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People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.
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If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.
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It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
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In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.
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The holy spirit of the Spring Is working silently.
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And in thy own sermon, thou That the sparrow falls dost allow, It shall not cause me any alarm For neither so comes the bird to harm, Seeing our Father, thou hast said, Is by the sparrow's dying bed Therefore it is a blessed place, And the sparrow in high grace.
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Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.
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As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.
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Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action
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We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which He is always giving as fast as He can get us able to take it in.
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There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse.
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We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.
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As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.
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When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over
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I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.
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I believe in fate, never in chance.
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We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
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The whole history of the Christian life is a series of resurrections. . . . Every time we find our hearts are troubled, that we are not rejoicing in God, a resurrection must follow a resurrection out of the night of troubled thought into the gladness of the truth.
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