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Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
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No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather!
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To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.
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As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
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I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.
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