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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.

George MacDonald

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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
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Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
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Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.
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The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins and feeling nothing of their dread hatefulness, have, consistent with their low condition, constantly taken this word concerning the Lord to mean that he came to save them from the punishment of their sins.
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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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In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.
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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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Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!
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The holy spirit of the Spring Is working silently.
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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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In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.
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Philosophy is really homesickness.
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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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Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.
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There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.
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What God may hereafter require of you, you must not give yourself the least trouble about. Everything He gives you to do, you must do as well as ever you can, and that is the best possible preparation for what He may want you to do next. If people would but do what they have to do, they would always find themselves ready for what came next.
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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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