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Do not measure God's mind by your own.
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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We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.
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Better to have the poet's heart than brain, Feeling than song.
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The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him or say, to make him think things for himself.
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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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Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
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Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.
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The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins and feeling nothing of their dread hatefulness, have, consistent with their low condition, constantly taken this word concerning the Lord to mean that he came to save them from the punishment of their sins.
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To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
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One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.
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When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.
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Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.
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In Giving, a man receives more than he gives and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
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The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law it is fully come when God's will is our will.
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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 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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