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George Macdonald Quotes and Quotations
It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God. To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. This is a sane, wholesome, practical, working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God; second, that God himself takes on the care of that man; and third, that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything. Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God. The principle part of faith is patience. My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think Thy answers make me what I am. We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value. It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear. Fear is faithlessness. Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here. Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken. To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray, Gone is the sun, come are the stars, And night infolds the day. |