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A true friend is forever a friend.
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 Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.
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I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.
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On Good Friday Jesus died But rose again at Eastertide.....Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us not from suffering but from ourselves, not from injustice...but from being unjust. He died that we might live - but live as he lives, by dying as he died who died to himself.
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