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Great Quotes by George MacDonald
- Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.
- I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word "doctrine,"…
- "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,…
- There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.
- 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…
- For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place…
- You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.
- I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although one sixpence is as good as another sixpence, not twenty…
- The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the borders…
- Those Christians who are very strict in their observances, think a good deal more of the Sabbath than of man, a great deal more of…
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