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George MacDonald Quotes


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To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
[Trust]

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
[Able]

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.
[Providence]

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.
[Patience]

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
[One Day]

When a man argues for victory and not for truth, he is sure of just one ally, that is the devil. - Not the defeat of the intellect, but the acceptance of the heart is the only true object in fighting with the sword of the spirit.
[Argument]

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
[Age]

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.


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