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Doe Quotes by George MacDonald
- In short, a man must be set free from the sin he is , which makes him do the sin he does .
- If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.
- What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?
- A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.
- Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge,…
- In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.
- The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.
- But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.
- A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
- 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…
- Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that…
- What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's…
- If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he…
- To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say…
- LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with him, upholding, warming,…
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- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
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- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi