Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness …

George MacDonald
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Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire. ✨ George Macdonald (2012). Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III, p.14, Simon and Schuster
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