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From 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 .
- Human science cannot discover God. Human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry web of God's science. It works with its back to…
- Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.
- Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.
- Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
- 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…
- This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.
- But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy…
- 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…
- There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind…
- It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit…
- Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse…
- Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It…
- Love me, beloved; Hades and Death Shall vanish away like a frosty breath; These hands, that now are at home in thine, Shall clasp thee…
- I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.
- But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of…
- My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.
- Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing…
- I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from…
- What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague…
- To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be…
- 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…
- It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck…
- 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…
- Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all infidelity that has ever been spoken.
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