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
What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?
How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to live in it.
Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.
To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
To try to be brave is to be brave.
To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.
Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.
One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up
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?
Religion is life essential.
Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.