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Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

George MacDonald
Forgiveness, Joy, Clean

In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.

George MacDonald
Father, Joy, Sorrow
George MacDonald (2015). “A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

George MacDonald
Doors, White, Joy

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.

George MacDonald
Sadness, Joy, Sorrow
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.72, Delphi Classics

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