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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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He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.
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If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.
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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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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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Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
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Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.
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The holy spirit of the Spring Is working silently.
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I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.
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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.
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All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.
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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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You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.
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The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.
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Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.
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