George MacDonald Quotes About Heaven
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How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to live in it.
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Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.
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If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.
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The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.
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God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.
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No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather!
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