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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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What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?
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When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.
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I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.
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The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.
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I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.
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Attitudes are more important than facts.
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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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Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! - just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject.
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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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Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.
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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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Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.
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O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything but thy father's son, 'Tis something not yet from the darkness won. Oh, give me light to live with open eyes. Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.
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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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The holy spirit of the Spring Is working silently.
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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
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Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.
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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
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I believe in fate, never in chance.
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