# Endnotes explained — Unspoken Sermons

> Chapter companion for Unspoken Sermons by George MacDonald.

## What happens

The endnotes reflect on the nature of miracles, the hastening of divine processes, the relationship between faith and understanding, and the deeper truths behind God's ways with humanity.

## Themes in this chapter

### Faith and Obedience

The humble spirit receives testimony and looks for a word from the Father, but cannot know it until received in the heart.

### Inner Transformation and Perfection

A man may be saved by the burning of his work, and doing work that can stand the fire leads to salvation.

## Character check-ins

### God the Father

Discussed in relation to the hastening of processes and the ordinary ways of God.

## Key lines

> There was in these miracles, and I think in all, only a hastening of appearances; the doing of that in a day, which may ordinarily take a thousand years, for with God time is not what it is with us.

Miracles are simply God doing in a moment what usually takes ages, because time is not a constraint for Him.

_Reflection on the nature of miracles as accelerated natural processes._

> Nothing saves a man more than the burning of his work, except the doing of work that can stand the fire.

A person is saved more by having their flawed work destroyed than by anything else, unless they produce work that endures testing.

_Comment on purification and the value of enduring work._

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