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What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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But words are vain reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.
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Do not measure God's mind by your own.
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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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There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.
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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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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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When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.
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A true friend is forever a friend.
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What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.
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We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.
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A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.
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I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.
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I believe in fate, never in chance.
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A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.
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All haste implies weakness.
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No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.
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