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
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.
To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.
No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.
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 ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.
No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.
The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.
Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.
It needs brains to be a real fool.
A true friend is forever a friend.
But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.