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If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.

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 miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.
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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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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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On Good Friday Jesus died But rose again at Eastertide.....Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us not from suffering but from ourselves, not from injustice...but from being unjust. He died that we might live - but live as he lives, by dying as he died who died to himself.
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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.
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In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.
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