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Alas! how easily things go wrong!
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.
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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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No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.
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You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.
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The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.
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Why should my love be powerless to help another?
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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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God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
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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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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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A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.
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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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Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.
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Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.
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All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.
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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
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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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For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.
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And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.
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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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