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No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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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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Some thinkers would feel sorely hampered if at liberty to use no forms but such as existed in nature, or to invent nothing save in accordance with the laws of the world of the senses but it must not therefore be imagined that they desire escape from the region of law.
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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.
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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
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If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.
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Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.
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She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.
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No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.
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I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.
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God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation--a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth. On and on from fact Divine He advances, until at length in His Son Jesus He unveils His very face.
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Oh, I believe that there is no away that no love, no life, goes ever from us it goes as He went, that it may come again, deeper and closer and surer, and be with us always, even to the end of the world.
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Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.
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Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.
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One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.
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If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.
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Love makes everything lovely hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.
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Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.
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Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.
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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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