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I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

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 more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
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Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or once abstained because He said, Do not do it! It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.
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A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.
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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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Better to have the poet's heart than brain, Feeling than song.
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Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.
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To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.
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One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
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I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.
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But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.
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Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
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Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
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There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.
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