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Attitudes are more important than facts.
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
George MacDonald
Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.
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To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
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He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.
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The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.
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There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.
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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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In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality what men call death is but a shadow.
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I am an emptiness for Thee to fill my soul a cavern for Thy sea
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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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Suppose you didn't know him, would that make any difference?' 'No,' said Willie, after thinking a little. 'Other people would know him if I didn't.' 'Yes, and if nobody knew him, God would know him, and anybody God has thought worth making, it's an honor to do anything for.
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As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
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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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And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.
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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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Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
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You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.
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The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.
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We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are offered his Spirit, that is, his very nature within us, for the asking, we will hardly take the trouble to ask for it.
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