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Most Quotes by George MacDonald
- The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.
- No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were…
- I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of…
- "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,…
- 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,…
- What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?…
- 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…
- I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought…
- 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…
- In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have;…
- I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster