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Which of us is other than a secret to all but God!
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)
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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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A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.
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But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.
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As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.
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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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If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.
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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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In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality what men call death is but a shadow.
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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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It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice.
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To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
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The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.
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It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
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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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There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.
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If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!
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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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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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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
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