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It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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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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The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him or say, to make him think things for himself.
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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
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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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It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.
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Will is not unfrequently weakness.
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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.
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To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.
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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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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
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Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.
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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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By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.
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And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.
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To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
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As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.
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Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.
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