George MacDonald quote about sorrow from Lilith - Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. Once with his father, he is to himself of no more account.
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“ Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. Once with his father, he is to himself of no more account. ”
 George MacDonald, Lilith (1895). copy citation

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Author George MacDonald
Source Lilith
Topic sorrow father self
Date 1895
Language English
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George MacDonald quote about sorrow from Lilith - Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. Once with his father, he is to himself of no more account.
George MacDonald quote about sorrow from Lilith - Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. Once with his father, he is to himself of no more account.