Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that … - George MacDonald

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Men and women thought and did noble and mean things that would have been impossible to them before or after. A man cannot drink old Bourbon long and remain in his normal condition. We did not drink Bourbon, but blood.

George MacDonald

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.

Hands, Lies, Lying, Next, Slowly, Things

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Oh, I believe that there is no away; that no love, no life, goes ever from us; it goes as He went, that it may come again, deeper and closer and surer, and be with us always, even to the end of the world.

Believe, Deeper, Life, Surer, World

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.

Done, Impulse, Liberty, Lies, Lying, Ought

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

Patterns, Shows, Though, Thread, Web

[God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship," for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way. "

Children, Knees, Look, Prayer, Strong, Worship

When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.

Conscience, Heart, Lord, Shapes, Things, Thinking

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