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And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay. (George MacDonald)
It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing. View quote
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When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone. View quote
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I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years! View quote
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There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator. View quote
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No story ever really ends, and I think I know why. View quote
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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 pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy. View quote
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I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation. View quote
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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. View quote
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As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book. View quote
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Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue. (George MacDonald)
Philosophy is really homesickness. View quote
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All that is not God is death. View quote
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I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself. View quote
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A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home. View quote
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The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended. View quote
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A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory. View quote
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What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision. View quote
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If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either. View quote
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The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. View quote
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Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing. (George MacDonald)
Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will. View quote
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Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon. View quote
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Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty. View quote
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I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was in it. View quote
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