The Hope of the GospelThis non-fictional book written by George MacDonald is one of the most potent collections of Christian apologetics. Author's religious reflections and theological views are compiled in this work, making the readers question the main ideas of Christianity. |
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... leave their natural surroundings behind them, and with strong and continuous effort keep rising in the social scale, to discover at every new ascent fresh trouble, as they think, awaiting them, whereas in truth they have brought the ...
... leave their natural surroundings behind them, and with strong and continuous effort keep rising in the social scale, to discover at every new ascent fresh trouble, as they think, awaiting them, whereas in truth they have brought the ...
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... leave him a selfdegraded slave—make him the very likeness of God, and good only because he could not help being good, would be an idea of the same character—equally absurd, equally self-contradictory. But the Lord is not unreasonable ...
... leave him a selfdegraded slave—make him the very likeness of God, and good only because he could not help being good, would be an idea of the same character—equally absurd, equally self-contradictory. But the Lord is not unreasonable ...
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... leave that which is impure; he can spread out the 'defiled, discoloured web' of his life before the bleaching sun of righteousness; he cannot save himself, but he can let the Lord save him. The struggle of his weakness is as essential ...
... leave that which is impure; he can spread out the 'defiled, discoloured web' of his life before the bleaching sun of righteousness; he cannot save himself, but he can let the Lord save him. The struggle of his weakness is as essential ...
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... leave undone. Blessed fact that he hath made us so near him! that the scale of our being is so large, that we are completed only by his presence in it! that we are not men without him! that we can be one with our self-existent creator ...
... leave undone. Blessed fact that he hath made us so near him! that the scale of our being is so large, that we are completed only by his presence in it! that we are not men without him! that we can be one with our self-existent creator ...
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Contents
JESUS AND HIS FELLOW TOWNSMEN | |
SORROW THE PLEDGE OF | |
THE REWARD OF OBEDIENCE | |
would help some to understand what Jesus came from the home | |
THE SALT AND THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD | |
THE HOPE OF THE UNIVERSE | |
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become begin believe better blessed body brother cause child comes comfort created creation creature darkness death desire disciples divine draw earth essential eternal evil existence expect eyes face fact faith Father feel fellows give glad glory God's gospel grow hand heart heaven hold hope human hunger idea imagine Jesus John kingdom of heaven leave less liberty light live look Lord Lord's means meek mind misery mourn nature neighbour never ourselves perfect poor possess possible presence prophet pure receive relation repentance rest reveal reward righteousness sake salt seek seems sense shine sins sorrow soul spirit suffering temple thee things thou thought true truth turn understand universe unto whole wrong yoke