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Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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Why should my love be powerless to help another?
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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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Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.
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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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I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.
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I am an emptiness for Thee to fill my soul a cavern for Thy sea
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Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or once abstained because He said, Do not do it! It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.
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Beauty and sadness always go together.
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Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
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Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.
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Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.
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But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.
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It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.
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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
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In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.
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Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.
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What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?
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No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.
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No man ever sank under the burden of the day. 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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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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