More from George MacDonald

  1. Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
  2. Certainly work is not always required of man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglec…
  3. If sin must be kept alive, then hell must be kept alive; but while I regard the smallest sin as infinitely loathsome, I do not believe that…
  4. Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! - just as if he had got into Fai…
  5. A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. If my drawing, on the other hand, is so far f…
  6. Do you think that the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says that His yoke is easy, His burden is light. People sometimes refuse…
  7. After a few days, Willie got tired of [the water-wheel] - and no blame to him, for it was no earthly use beyond amusement, and that which c…
  8. Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

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