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God is ever seeking to get down to us -- to be the divine man in us. And we are ever saying, "That b...
GEORGE MACDONALD
I cannot imagine a much greater misfortune for a man (not to say a clergyman) than not to know, or k...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 To realize that yo...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951 To the dim and bewilde...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Christmas Eve They were all looking for a king To slay their foes, and lift them high; Thou cam'st,...
GEORGE MACDONALD
The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares abou...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abb...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 I would not favour a fiction to keep a ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Instead of so knowing Christ that they have Him in them saving them, they lie wasting themselves in ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
They were in a better condition, acknowledging only a terror above them flaming on that unknown moun...
GEORGE MACDONALD
The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through Him we might know His Father and ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 He who forgives not is not forgiv...
GEORGE MACDONALD
That no obedience but a perfect one will satisfy God, I hold with all my heart and strength; but tha...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 [God desires] not that He may say to them...
GEORGE MACDONALD
I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary s...
ROSS MACDONALD
Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can ...
NORM MACDONALD
In this meet I wasn't expecting anything (or) to be close to him. I'm actually just happy to be divi...
DAVID MACDONALD
While the Sanctuary has been most associated with whales and whale watching, it also serves as a ste...
CRAIG MACDONALD
Instead of wholesale adoption, we are seeing at most experimentation. Worldwide farmers have good re...
DAVID MACDONALD
Here,at the University of Malta, the sign that should hang out of the window should say: “None of ...
VANESSA MACDONALD
A few years ago, if you had told me I'd be moving back to Glasgow I'd have said, 'No way...
KELLY MACDONALD
Losing Hidden Valley would be not a good thing. No question he's in a difficult position, certainly....
ROSS MACDONALD
Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 Continuing a short series on authenticity: There ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
EPIPHANY What should I think of my child, if I found that he limited his faith in me and hope fr...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Ab...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thé...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Continuing a short series on topic...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012 The Son of God suffered unto the...
GEORGE MACDONALD
The pure eye for the true vision of another's claims can only go with the loving heart. The man who ...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Do you think that the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says that His yoke is easy, His b...
GEORGE MACDONALD
The Gospels contain what the Apostles preached -- the Epistles, what they wrote after the preaching....
GEORGE MACDONALD
Do you so love the truth and the right that you welcome, or at least submit willingly to, the idea o...
GEORGE MACDONALD
I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends abou...
NORM MACDONALD
I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have...
NORM MACDONALD
No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him
GEORGE MACDONALD
To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.
GEORGE MACDONALD
If, instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart o...
GEORGE MACDONALD
…for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it;
GEORGE MACDONALD
Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, tha...
NORM MACDONALD
I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do r...
NORM MACDONALD
I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
NORM MACDONALD
I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely into...
MARGO MACDONALD
This is in the very nature of things: obedience alone places a man in the position in which he can s...
GEORGE MACDONALD
Humility is essential greatness, the inside of grandeur.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Instead of sending a sample to a laboratory where they do some kind of elaborate analysis and eventu...
DAVID MACDONALD
When I was young, I'd watch guys on 'The Tonight Show', Buddy Hackett, guys like that, w...
NORM MACDONALD