"Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
More George MacDonald quotes
"Now I knew that life and truth were one; that life mere and pure is in itself bliss; that where being is not bliss, it is not life, but life-in-death....
"Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop...
"It is just the old way--that of obedience. If you have ever seen the Lord, if only from afar--if you have any vaguest suspicion that the Jew Jesus, wh...
"All that is not God is death.