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Thinking Quotes by George MacDonald
- When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over
- Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The night and storm…
- When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory…
- 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.
- We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of…
- But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.
- 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,…
- It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
- No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.
- The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but…
- You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.
- My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.
- I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!
- 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…
- Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.
- Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase of flowers. If…
- 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…
- 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.'…
- 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…
- The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the…
- 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,…
- We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think…
- 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…
More Thinking Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
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- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I don't think I have a signature. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
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- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams