George MacDonald
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Complaint against God is far nearer to God than indifference about him.
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I would rather be what God chose to make me, than the most glorious creature that I could think of. For to have been thought about—born in God’s thoughts—and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, most precious thing in all thinking.
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In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.
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A man’s real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.
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I think we do not yet know the joy of mere existence. To exist is to be a child of God; and to know it, to feel it, is to rejoice evermore.
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Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.
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A free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom indeed.
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The heart within you cries out for something, and you let it cry. It is crying for its God — for its father and mother and home. And the day will come, when all the world will look dull and gray, till your heart is satisfied and quieted with the presence of Him.
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The theological lie, that punishment is the satisfaction of justice.
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Thank God, there is no way around the purifying fire! Those who require it shall not escape it; they must pass through it.
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In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.
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The cry of the human heart, in all ages, and in every moment, is, “Where is God, and how shall I find Him?”
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God will not conquer evil by crushing it underfoot—any god of man’s idea could do that—but by conquest of heart over heart, of life over life, of life over death, of love over all.
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“More life!” is the unconscious prayer of all creation, groaning and travailing for the redemption of its lord, the son who is not yet a son.
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The kingdom of heaven is not come, even when God’s will is our law; it is come when God’s will is our will.
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“I and the father are one” is the center–truth of the universe; and the circumfering truth is “that they also may be one in us.”
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A man’s real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.
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Jesus is in himself aware of every human pain. He feels it also. In him too it is pain. With the energy of tenderest love he wills his brothers and sisters free, that he may fill them to overflowing with that essential thing, joy.
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I think, when Judas fled from his hanged and fallen body, he fled to the tender help of Jesus, and found it—I say not how. I believe Jesus loved Judas even when he was kissing him with the traitor’s kiss, and I believe that he was his Savior still.
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I am so tired by the things said about God. I understand God’s patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious.
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We are not real human beings until we are of the same mind with Christ.
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There are good things God must delay giving. God must first make his child fit to receive and fit to have.
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Forgiveness can never be indifference. Forgiveness is love towards the unlovely.
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But herein is the Bible itself greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever unfolding Revelation of God.
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Cast away from you that doctrine of devils, that Jesus died to save us from our Father.
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Man is made, not to contemplate himself, but to behold in others the beauty of the Father.
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God always provides the sacrifice; the sacrifice is himself. He is always, and has ever been, sacrificing himself to and for his creatures.
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Perhaps the highest moral height which a man can reach, and at the same time the most difficult of attainment, is the willingness to be nothing.
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Those who engage in the tearing down of other people’s opinions indulge their intellect at the expense of their heart. A man may have light in the brain and darkness in the heart. It is a path which naturally ends in blindness and unbelief.
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A man must not choose his neighbour; he must take the neighbour that God sends him. Your neighbour is just the man, who is next to you, at the moment.
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You have a disagreeable duty to do at 12 o’clock. Do not blacken 9 and 10 and 11, and all in between, with the color of 12. Do the work of each, and reap your reward in peace. So when the dreaded moment in the future becomes the present, you shall meet it walking in the light…
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God always provides the sacrifice; the sacrifice is himself. He is always, and has ever been, sacrificing himself to and for his creatures.
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I cannot say I never doubt. For doubt is the hammer that breaks the windows clouded with human fancies, and lets in the pure light.
But I do say that all my hope, all my joy, all my strength are in the Lord Christ and his Father.
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Intelligence is a consequence of love; nor is there any true intelligence without it.
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A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast the less he knows it.
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To many souls hell itself seems a less frightful alternative than the agony of resolve, of turning, of being born again.
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God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation — a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth. On and on, from fact to fact divine He advances, until at length in His Son Jesus, He unveils His very face.
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Come, sore heart, and see whether Christ’s heart can heal yours. Beloved, we must get rid of this misery of ours. It is slaying us. It is turning the fair earth into a hell, and our hearts into its fuel.
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Who knows what harm may be done to a man by hurrying a spiritual process in him?
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God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin.
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Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
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Sleep is God’s contrivance for giving us the help he cannot get into us when we are awake.
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To uphold a lie for God’s sake is to be against God, not for him.
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The whole history of the Christian life is a series of such resurrections…Every time that a man finds that his heart is troubled, that he is not rejoicing in God, a resurrection must follow—a resurrection out of the night of troubled thoughts into the gladness of the truth.
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In every man there is a loneliness, an inner chamber of peculiar life into which God only can enter.
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Something is wrong if the calm of the summer night does not sink into the heart, for it embodies the peace of God. Something is wrong in the man to whom the sunrise is not a divine glory, for therein is embodied the truth, the simplicity, and the might of the Maker.
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To hold fast upon God with one hand, and open wide the other to your neighbor — that is religion; and the true way to all better things that are yet to come.
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To know God is to be in the secret place of all knowledge; and to trust Him changes the atmosphere surrounding mystery and seeming contradiction, from one of pain and fear to one of hope.
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The reality of Christ’s nature is not to be proved by argument. He must be beheld.
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When arguing a philosophical point, you must leave your opponent room. Let him have a hand in the convincing of himself.
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It is for the sake of the resurrection that death exists.
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Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.
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The Lord would rather wash the feet of his weary brothers than be the one perfect monarch that ever ruled the world.
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The whole trouble is that we won’t let God help us.
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Yet all love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.
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One thing is sure—that God is doing his best for every man.
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All you have to do and that is plenty is to go on doing what you know to be right, to keep your heart turned to God for him to lead you, and to read and try to understand the story of Jesus. A thousand other things will come in from God to help you if you do thus.
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Take Him for your master, and He will demand nothing of you which you are not able to perform. This is the open door to bliss.
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The man who, instead of doing what he is told, broods speculating on the metaphysics of him who calls him to his work, stands leaning his back against the door by which the Lord would enter to help him.
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And as he prayed, something like a touch of God seemed to begin and grow in him till it was more than his heart could hold, and the universe about him was not large enough to hold in its hollow the heart that swelled with it.
“God is enough,” he said, and sat in peace.
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The Lord of Life is with you, and that is real company, even in dying, when no one else can be with you.
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The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it—the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.
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Something is wrong if the calm of the summer night does not sink into the heart, for it embodies the peace of God. Something is wrong in the man to whom the sunrise is not a divine glory, for therein is embodied the truth, the simplicity, and the might of the Maker.
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It is God and man, and that is real religion. It is not this observation and that observation; it is my soul and his soul, and then my hands to do his will. That is real religion.
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Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.
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There is nothing in all the universe which does not in some way vibrate within the heart of God.
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And as he prayed, something like a touch of God seemed to begin and grow in him till it was more than his heart could hold, and the universe about him was not large enough to hold in its hollow the heart that swelled with it.
“God is enough,” he said, and sat in peace.
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God’s fire, which is his essential being, his love, his creative power, is a fire unlike its earthly symbol in this, that it is only at a distance it burns—that the farther from him, the worse it burns, and that when we turn and begin to approach, it begins to change to comfort.
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God is deeper in us than our own life. Yea, God’s life is the very center and creative cause of that life which we call ours.
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No abstract truth held by purest insight can make a man free. But the truth done, the truth loved, the truth lived, that is the truth that makes him free.
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Try not to feel good, when thou art not good, but cry to Him who is good.
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Our Lord was, is, and ever shall be divinely childlike. Childhood belongs to the divine nature.
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Thousands that are capable of great sacrifices are yet not capable of the little ones which are all that are required of them.
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No abstract truth held by purest insight can make a man free. But the truth done, the truth loved, the truth lived, that is the truth that makes him free.
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Did Jesus Christ not foil and slay evil by letting all the waves and billows of its horrid sea break upon him, spend their rage, fall defeated, and cease?
Verily, he made atonement.
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To have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.
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Somewhere or other we will find what is needful for us, in a book, or a friend, or best of all, in our own thoughts — the eternal thought speaking in our thoughts.
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Because God is so free from stain, so loving, so unselfish, so good, so altogether what he wants us to be, so holy, therefore all his works declare him in beauty. His fingers can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.
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To be something to God — is not that praise enough?
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Communion with God is the one need of the soul beyond all other need; prayer is the beginning of that communion.
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The door of prayer has been open ever since God made man in his own image.
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We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
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The whole of creation, its growth, its history, the gathering of all human existence, is an unveiling of the Father.
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Any belief in Jesus Christ, however small, is far better than any amount of belief about him.
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To know Christ is an infinitely higher thing than to know all theology, all that is said about His person, or babbled about His work.
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Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to rouse the honest heart. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood.
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When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries, and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awful loving-kindness.
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God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours.
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I thought that if I could get them to like poetry and beautiful things in words, it would not only do them good, but would help them to see what is in the Bible and therefore love it more.
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There is a childhood into which we have to grow, just as there is a childhood which we must leave behind.
One is a childishness from which but few of those who are counted wisest among men have freed themselves. The other is a childlikeness, which is the highest gain of humanity.
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Love is the final atonement, of which and for which the sacrifice of the atonement was made. And till this atonement is made in every man, sin holds its own, and God is not all in all.
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Let us have grace to serve our God with divine fear; not with the fear that cringes and craves, but with the bowing down of all thoughts, all delights, all loves, before Him who is the life of them all, and who will have them all pure.
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If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence.
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