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A voice is in the wind I do not know
A meaning on the face of the high hills
Whose utterance I cannot comprehend.
A something is behind them: that is God.

George MacDonald

We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are offered his Spirit, that is, his very nature within us, for the asking, we will hardly take the trouble to ask for it.

George MacDonald

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.

George MacDonald

George MacDonald

George MacDonald

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Born: December 10, 1824

Died: September 18, 1905 (aged 80)

Bio: George MacDonald was 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.

Known for:

Phantastes (1858)
The Princess and the Goblin (1872)
The Princess and Curdie (1883)
At the Back of the North Wind (1871)
The Light Princess (1864)

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