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Quality, Not the Dregs

George MacDonald

George MacDonald wrote, “Mind, it is our best work that He wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think He must prefer quality to quantity.” The line challenges the habit of giving God whatever remains after everything else has taken its share. Best work requires margin. Exhausted scraps are not the same as a living sacrifice.

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God is not honored by exhausted leftovers offered as service.

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