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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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The mind of the many is not the mind of God.
George MacDonald
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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In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.
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Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.
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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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The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
George MacDonald
Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.
George MacDonald
Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.
George MacDonald
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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Oh, I believe that there is no away that no love, no life, goes ever from us it goes as He went, that it may come again, deeper and closer and surer, and be with us always, even to the end of the world.
George MacDonald
The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born.
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.
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As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
George MacDonald
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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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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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.
George MacDonald
I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.
George MacDonald
Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.
George MacDonald
To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.
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