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
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.
Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.
Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.
Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.
The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.
A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.