George MacDonald

“He will give us everything if we will only come to Him and be His children. That is the #Gospel.” … #GeorgeMacDonald

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From all copies of Jonathan Edwards’s portrait of #God, however faded by time, however softened by the use of less glaring pigments, I turn with loathing. Not such a God is he concerning whom was the message John heard frm #Jesus, that he is light, + in him is no darkness at all.

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"Try it and see whether obedience is not salvation; whether service is not dignity; whether you will not feel in yourselves that you have begun to be cleansed from your plague when you begin to say, ‘I will seek no more to be above my fellows but I will seek to minister to them’"

[David John Jack @DavidJack1824]

A new edition of Thomas Wingfold, Curate, the novel that probably inspired THAT Puddleglum speech in #CSLewis' #TheSilverChair, has just been published by The Works of MacDonald. Nice Christmassy feel to it too, what with the mulled wine coloured cover! https://t.co/T6LGd6KGCL

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and tended to bring them together and unite them into one, like the harmonious form of the universe.” (3/3) #GeorgeMacDonald

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“There could be no poetry in unsympathizing coldness and uncharitableness. It was that repellent temper which was at the root of all schism, bigotry and littleness, all separating of things from each other; (1/3) #GeorgeMacDonald

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whereas the power of the poetic faculty lay in this: that the mind in virtue of that faculty saw the same thing in a thousand different forms, saw the harmony of things (2/3) #GeorgeMacDonald

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[Fr Fedora @EOrthodoxy]

"If you find what I tell you untrue, it will only be that it is not grand and free and bounteous enough. To think anything too good to be true, is to deny God--to say the untrue may be better than the true--that there might be a greater God than he. ~ George MacDonald

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By obedience, I intend no kind of obedience to man, or submission to authority claimed by man or community of men. I mean obedience to the will of the Father, however revealed in our conscience.

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Those must have comfort in themselves who are sent to comfort others.

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no man’s thoughts are of much value who has not better behind that he cannot utter

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@lisaofgv @QuentinLatimer FYI (you may know this already): Donal Grant is a character in “Sir Gibbie” and the events of “Donal Grant” follow those of “Sir Gibbie” though both books stand on their own.

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She tried to feel that she deserved to be burnt in hell forever and ever, and that it was boundlessly good of God who made her so that she should not help being a sinner, to give her the least chance of escaping it.

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Ten times more consistent are they who deny there is a God at all than they who fancy they believe in a middling kind of God, in whom they place indeed a fitting faith.

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What if she should be persuaded of things she could not honestly disbelieve, but which yet it was impossible to believe and be saved!

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@lisaofgv This is from “Donal Grant”, chapter 8, which shares some of Lady Arctura’s religious perspective. I am reading the new edition with the Scots dialogue translated by @QuentinLatimer.

It seems to me this passage is reflected in Lewis’s “A Pilgrim’s Regress” landlord passage.

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poverty of imagination dis enabling the translator to see what the poet meant

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“keep him out of the pulpit and he does well enough.”

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the oppressed of our time believe in money, knowledge, and the will of a people which needs but power to be in
its turn the oppressor.

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The glory of God is that he demands of us to take a share with him in our own creation

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3/3 infinitely nobler and more desirable than /success/ in the common use of the word.

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#Wingfold

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1/x …if there is to be advance, it must begin with a few and it is /possible/ (I cannot say more, nor does modesty forbid my saying this) I may be one of the few. But increase of truth will always in greater or less degree look like error at first.

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2/3 but to suffer in that cause is only to be like the Master; and even to be a martyr to a newer development of truth (which certainly I do not expect to be required of me in any extreme form in the present state of thought in the country) is

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