George MacDonald – born

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George MacDonald was born 12/10/1824, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.  He was a Congregationalist who pastored at Arundel, Sussex until some theological controversies led to his resignation.  He thereafter supported himself by lecturing, tutoring, writing and occasional preaching.  Though often in poor health and poverty, his writings show a faith in God.

C S Lewis acknowledged a debt to MacDonald calling him his “master.”  The cheerful goodness demonstrated in his works captured Lewis’s imagination and convinced him that righteousness was not dull.  MacDonald died 18/9/1905, at Ashstead, England.  

 

MacDonald Quotes:

“Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.”

 “To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”  

“Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.”  

“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.”

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George MacDonald – death, Sep. 18, 1905

A man may take the dark for light, but he canna take the light for darkness.

– George MacDonald, The Minister’s Restoration (Minneapolis: Bethany House Pub., 1988), 62.

 

The good minister, whose heart was the teacher of his head…

– George MacDonald, The Minister’s Restoration (Minneapolis: Bethany House Pub., 1988), 84.

 

God can wait foryer prayer better than you…

– George MacDonald, The Minister’s Restoration (Minneapolis: Bethany House Pub., 1988), 92.

 

Eternal spaces where there is no remembering and no forgetting.

– George MacDonald, The Minister’s Restoration (Minneapolis: Bethany House Pub., 1988), 120.

 

The Spirit, forever distinguishsed yet never divided from the Lord.  

– George MacDonald, The Minister’s Restoration (Minneapolis: Bethany House Pub., 1988), 187.

 

 

George MacDonald died this date, 9/18/1905, Scottish minister, novelist and poet who wrote  At the Back of the North Wind, The Baronet’s Song, The Golden Key, Salted with Fire.  He was born 12/10/1824.

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George MacDonald – birth, Dec. 10, 1824

In God’s Kingdom…a man’s salvation rarely comes without the prayers of another who labors unseen.  

– George MacDonald, The Minister’s Restoration (Minneapolis: Bethany House Pub., 1988), 19.

 

Never did his face light up when he spoke of the Son of God, of his death, or of his resurrection.  Never did he make mention of the kingdom of heaven as if it were anything more venerable than the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

– George MacDonald, The Minister’s Restoration (Minneapolis: Bethany House Pub., 1988), 61.

 

For God is love, and love is that which is, and was, and shall be for evermore – boundless, unconditional, self-existent, creative!

– George MacDonald, The Minister’s Restoration (Minneapolis: Bethany House Pub., 1988), 117.

 

The heart o’ both king and cobbler’s in the hand o’ the Lord…

 – George MacDonald, The Minister’s Restoration (Minneapolis: Bethany House Pub., 1988), 147.

 

Ignorant people go abut always asking why God permits evil.  We know why!  So that we might know – really know – what good is like, and therefore what God himself is like.

– George MacDonald, The Minister’s Restoration (Minneapolis: Bethany House Pub., 1988), 206.

George MacDonald was born 12/10/1824 in Scotland.  He was a pastor but also a writer.  His pen influenced the later pen of C S Lewis.

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