To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace–the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

George MacDonald
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  2. I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

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