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No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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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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A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.
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Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
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It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
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To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.
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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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To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.
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In Giving, a man receives more than he gives and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
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But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.
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We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.
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I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.
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Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.
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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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If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.
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God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
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The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law it is fully come when God's will is our will.
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The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.
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Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that went plumb-down. That is the way, he said. But there are no stairs. You must throw yourself in. There is no other way.
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When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.
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In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.
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