punishment had not been spared–with best results in patience and purification
– George MacDonald
Related Quotes:
- Patience is a skill that brings beauty. Patience brings strength. Patience brings happiness – Practice patience and you will achieve your goals! – Angie karan
- Real patience is not the same as waiting impatiently for something for a long time. Patience is having patience with patience. – HM Forester
- Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and has thrown in the towel. – Criss Jami
- The purpose of prayer is purification. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Chit impurity is due to the relative vision. When the vision becomes real (enlightened), purification of chit occurs. – Dada Bhagwan
- The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72) – Swami Satchidananda
- Purification in Shinto lifts the burden from the shoulders of the individual and washes it away. – Stuart DB Picken
- …purification was the point of such pain. – Holly Lynn Payne
- The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. – George Bernard Shaw
- As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book. – George MacDonald
- The truth Fear tells is not much better than her lies. – George MacDonald
- We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down. – George MacDonald Fraser
- A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer. – George MacDonald
- I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn’t present the picture they would like. – George MacDonald Fraser
- There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end – George MacDonald
- . . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time. – George MacDonald Fraser
- Her heart – like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away – was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw. – George MacDonald
- Past tears are present strength. – George MacDonald
- All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words. – George MacDonald
- I can but pray the Father o’ a’ to haud his e’e upon her, an’ his airms aboot her, an’ keep aff the hardenin’ o’ the hert ‘at despises coonsel! – George MacDonald
- Obedience is the opener of eyes. – George MacDonald
- Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. – George MacDonald
- Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly. – George MacDonald
- If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words–food and exercise. – George MacDonald
- How kind you are, North Wind!”I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it. – George MacDonald
- Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings. – George MacDonald
- Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not confidence. – George MacDonald
- …as no one can be just without love, so no one can truly report without understanding. – George MacDonald
- The main secret of his progress, the secret of all wisdom, was, that with him action was the beginning and end of thought. – George MacDonald
- There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end. – George MacDonald
- Who can give a man this, his own name? – George MacDonald
- Ignorance is no reason with a fool for holding his tongue. – George MacDonald
- The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman. – George Everett Macdonald
- The person who can not bear with a sick man or a baby is not fit to be a woman. – George MacDonald
- Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel. – George MacDonald
- [George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty. – Clarence Darrow
- How much time is wasted in what is called thought, but is merely care–an anxious idling over the fancied probabilities of result – George MacDonald
- Heed not thy feeling. Do thy work. – George MacDonald
- It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going. – George MacDonald
- You had better not open that door. – George MacDonald