You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the one dreadful thing. That His Father should forget him! -- no power in Himself could make up for that. He feared nothing for Himself; and never once employed His divine power to save Himself from His human fate. Let God do that for Him if He saw fit. He did not come into the world to take care of Himself... His life was of no value to Him but as His Father cared for it. God would mind all that was necessary for Him, and He would mind the work His Father had given Him to do. And, my friends, this is just the one secret of a blessed life, the one thing every man comes into this world to learn.


George MacDonald

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I am always hearing. . . the sound of a far off song. I do not exactly know where it is, or what it ...
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All that is not God is death.
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The one principle of hell is – “I am my own
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Obedience is the opener of eyes.
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She could now be sad without losing a jot of hope. Nay, rather, the least approach of sadness would ...
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She had turned thought and feeling into life, into reality, into creation. They speak of the _creati...
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punishment had not been spared--with best results in patience and purification
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Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.
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Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks ...
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She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down...
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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 ma...
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We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else,...
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The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour goo...
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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 ...
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The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go...
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What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty...
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As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleas...
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Past tears are present strength.
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My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mi...
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One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have ...
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Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.
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If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injur...
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It is by loving and not by being loved, that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
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I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold u...
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My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not;
I think thy answers make me what I am.
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We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because ...
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It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be t...
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And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but coul...
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Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
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Love me, beloved; Hades and Death
Shall vanish away like a frosty breath;
These hands, tha...
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I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five...
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Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible foun...
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To try to be brave is to be brave.
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It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, w...
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The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for co...
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In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’
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It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had b...
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...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness ...
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It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.
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Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.
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You had better not open that door.
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Godfrey and Hesper made a glorious pair to look at--but would theirs be a happy union?--Happy, I dar...
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Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.
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Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of t...
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We're looking into conserving landfill space. We're looking to generate energy without relying on fo...
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Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cul...
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Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty
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God’s finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.
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The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission
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It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing
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Where did you get your eyes so blue? / Out of the sky as I came through.
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The two pillars of political correctness is willful ignorance and the steadfast refusal to face the ...
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It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when to-morrow’s bu...
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We've done a better job at getting more complete representation.
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Where did you come from, baby dear? / Out of the everywhere into here.
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The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty th...
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To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved
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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by th...
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Seeing is not believing, it is only seeing,”
George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin
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The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.
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Love and marriage are of the Father's most powerful means for the making of his foolish little ones ...
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It is not at all a fit place for you," said Clementina.

"Gently, my lady. It is a ...
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Mary was one who possessed power over her own spirit--rare gift, given to none but those who do some...
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Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes
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Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth wit...
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