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
Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.
Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.
Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.
Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action
One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up
Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.
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.
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.
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.
Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.
Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.