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
A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.
I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.
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?
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.
Religion is life essential.
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.
A true friend is forever a friend.
I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.