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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.
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 miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.
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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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