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Today is the birthday of George MacDonald (December 10, 1824 – September 18, 1905), author, poet, and clergyman.

"We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else."
- George MacDonald

"It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is the loving of each other, that originates and perfects and assures their blessedness. I knew that love gives to him that loveth, power over over any soul be loved, even if that soul know him not, bringing him inwardly close to that spirit; a power that cannot be but for good; for in proportion as selfishness intrudes, the love ceases, and the power which springs therefrom dies. Yet all love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad. This is possible in the realms of lofty Death."
- George MacDonald

"Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil."
- George MacDonald

"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."
- George MacDonald

"The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself."
- George MacDonald

"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
- George MacDonald

"Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes."
- George MacDonald

"Seeing is not believing--it is only seeing."
- George MacDonald

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