George Macdonald

(23 votes)   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.

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(21 votes)   It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

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(15 votes)   The principal part of faith is patience.

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(14 votes)   The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

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(221 votes)   Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

George Macdonald
1824-1905, Scottish Novelist

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(101 votes)   Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

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1824-1905, Scottish Novelist

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(86 votes)   God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

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1824-1905, Scottish Novelist

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(77 votes)   It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet.

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1824-1905, Scottish Novelist

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(67 votes)   Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

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(50 votes)   But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

George Macdonald
1824-1905, Scottish Novelist

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(25 votes)   Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

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(25 votes)   Attitudes are more important than facts.

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(25 votes)   Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

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(24 votes)   Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

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(23 votes)   The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

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