“Forgiveness is the giving,
and so the receiving, of life”
George Macdonald
“And whenever you may stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, that your Father who is in the heavens may also forgive you your trespasses; and, if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in the heavens forgive your trespasses.”
Mark 11:25-26
“To keep a lamp burning
we have to keep putting oil in it.”
George MacDonald
“If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God,
and he that does not live to God, is dead.”
– George MacDonald
“That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, ‘Thou art my refuge.'”
– George MacDonald
“If you do not obey Him, you will not know Him. You will tell me some of you, that I am always beating that anvil, that obedience to Christ is Christianity. Let me die insisting upon it. For my Lord insists upon it”
– George MacDonald
“And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams”
1 Samuel 15:22
Wisdom of the Ages 