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George MacDonald

Scottish writer and Christian minister

1824–1905

24 quotes, most often on Writing, Truth & Lies and God.

God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 250.
- Christianity
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 148
- Christianity
I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.
From a letter to his father, quoted in George MacDonald and His Wife (1924) by Greville MacDonald
- Christianity
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