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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 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 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 I didn't really want to inject myself into anything political. A lot of people were asking me at...
NORM MACDONALD The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.
JAMES MACDONALD