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George MacDonald Quote

“How rich this earth seems when we regard it—crowded with the loves of home! Yet I am now getting ready to go home —to leave this world of homes and go home. When I reach that home, shall I even then seek yet to go home? Even then, I believe, I shall seek a yet warmer, deeper, truer home in the deeper knowledge of God—in the truer love of my fellow men. Eternity will be—my heart and my faith tell me—a traveling homeward, but in jubilation and confidence and the vision of the beloved.”

— George MacDonald

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All is loss that comes between us and Christ.

— George MacDonald

Wisdom

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Learn these two things: never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here, and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand. Do not be in a hurry, but be diligent. Enter into the sublime patience of the Lord. Be charitable in view of it. God can afford to wait; why cannot we, since we have Him to fall back upon? Let patience have her perfect work, and bring forth her celestial fruits. Trust to God to weave your little thread into a web, though the patterns show it not yet.

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Faith

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Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

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Faith

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Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.

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Love

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The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

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God never gave a man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.

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