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Better Quotes by George MacDonald
- For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.
- To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize,…
- "But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves,…
- But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him…
- Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
- Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.
- I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his…
- I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better,…
- 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…
- Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.
- My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to be…
- Love is liking someone better than you like yourself.
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