If God sees that heart corroded with the rust of cares, riddled into caverns and films by the worms of ambition and greed, then your heart is as God sees it, for God sees things as they are. And one day you will be compelled to see, nay to feel your heart as God sees it (George MacDonald: An Anthology, p.11).

My takeaway from this quote (which probably has little if anything to do with what MacDonald, in his quasi-universalism, intended) is – The Christian is one who comes to see, and feel, his heart in the way that God sees it.

• Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? 10 “I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

• Matthew 5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

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