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Him Quotes by George MacDonald
- If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of…
- In short, a man must be set free from the sin he is , which makes him do the sin he does .
- As cold as everything looks in winter, the sun has not forsaken us. He has only drawn away for a little, for good reasons, one…
- 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…
- Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly…
- As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.
- Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord,…
- It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is, when tomorrow's burden is added to the…
- No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.
- Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.
- "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…
- The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His…
- God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not…
- We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are offered his Spirit,…
- Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or…
- It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is…
- The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still,…
- The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but…
- It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a…
- The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to…
- Suppose you didn't know him, would that make any difference?' 'No,' said Willie, after thinking a little. 'Other people would know him if I didn't.'…
- 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,…
- One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves…
- I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden