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I am an emptiness for Thee to fill my soul a cavern for Thy sea
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
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We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.
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He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.
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Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.
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