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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.
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Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.
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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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Those that hope little cannot grow much.
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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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Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.
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To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
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Do not measure God's mind by your own.
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The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
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She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.
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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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What can money do to console a man with a headache?
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The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.
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No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.
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The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.
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All that man sees has to do with man. Worlds cannot be without an intermundane relationship. The community of the centre of all creation suggests an interradiating connection and dependence of the parts. Else a grander idea is conceivable than that which is already embodied.
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.
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If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.
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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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You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)
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