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"51 George MacDonald Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 10 December 1824. Died: 18 September 1905 | Author | Poet |

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Trusted Greater compliment Loved
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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

Work Required Sacred idleness
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Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.

Her heart Fallen sides Inexhaustible fountain
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Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

Man finds Want God Gives
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Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

Seeing Believing
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To try to be brave is to be brave.
Try Brave
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Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

Afflliction Father wills Friend Frowns
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A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

Beast Know Nearer Man
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Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

God Leaves Disputing
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It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Loving Being Nearest soul
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All that is not God is death.

God Death
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As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
Grow Somewhere Find Needful
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People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

People Believe Hard Seen
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If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

God Father work Limit Enlargement
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Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

Work Business Universe Eyes
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You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

Learn Strong Dark Half brave
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You doubt because you love truth.

Doubt Love truth
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I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

Thank you Care for Do better
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Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

Life Dream
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And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay

Life Richer Holding Memory
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Past tears are present strength.
Past tears Present strength
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Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.

Her face Pretty Eyes Night sky
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Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.

Think Better things Being comfortable
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To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

Love righteousness Grow Life Earth
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Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

God Bound Punish sin Destroy
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Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

Doubt Poor Encouragement Reason
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Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

Annihilation Death Good Dead
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A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

Lighting Thunder Stars Stillness
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My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

Prayer S God Think
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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 heart.

Words Vain Feeble part
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There is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

Harm Afraid Fear Master
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There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.

No slave Creature Creator
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I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

Repent Ignorance God Man
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If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Gem Flower Gift Heart
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We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

Unable Tell people Need Something else
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Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.

Big enough Minds Hang Prayer
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We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We have a body.

Soul Have Body
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But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love.

Believe Lord Hope Thank
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I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

Help Beautiful God Thought
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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 in which it sounds

Great love Most wretched Heart
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I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!

More world Doors Many years
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It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

Man Obedient Master Word
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The best preparation for the future, is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

Best preparation Future Done
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It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh.

Heart God Afraid Laugh
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Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed.
Beautiful Beloved Kind Destroyed
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God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

God finger Mold Loveliness
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We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
Die daily Happy Life
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I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.
Rose Death Sadness Life
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Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

Man Love Fear Wild beasts
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Wherever there is anything to love, there is beauty in some form.
Wherever Anything Love
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George MacDonald Quotes & Sayings