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Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.
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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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And in thy own sermon, thou That the sparrow falls dost allow, It shall not cause me any alarm For neither so comes the bird to harm, Seeing our Father, thou hast said, Is by the sparrow's dying bed Therefore it is a blessed place, And the sparrow in high grace.
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One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
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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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A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home
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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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But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.
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Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.
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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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Those that hope little cannot grow much.
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Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.
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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
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Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.
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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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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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Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.
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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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They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'
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God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.
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