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Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.
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No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.
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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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Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.
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Those that hope little cannot grow much.
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The holy spirit of the Spring Is working silently.
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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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It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
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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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What can money do to console a man with a headache?
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Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.
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What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.
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I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.
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It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.
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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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The ideal is the only absolute real and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.
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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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When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.
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If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!
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