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Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.

Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.

George MacDonald
Truth, Corresponding

Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion.

George MacDonald
Spiritual, Truth, Soul
George MacDonald (2015). “THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship”, p.676, e-artnow

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

George MacDonald
Inspirational, Truth, Honest
George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.7592, e-artnow

But there is no veil like light--no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth.

George MacDonald
Hurt, Truth, Light

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

George MacDonald
Truth, Honesty, Lying
George MacDonald, Clive Staples Lewis (1990). “George MacDonald: an anthology”

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