George MacDonald
George MacDonald
George MacDonaldwas a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors including W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. C. S. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master": "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 December 1824
I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.
When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awe-inspiring loving-kindness.
Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.
If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.
In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?
He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.
Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor--one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.
There is an aching that is worse than any pain.
Religion is life essential.
Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.
All haste implies weakness.
The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.
Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.