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George MacDonald: An Anthology: 365 Readings is unavailable, but you can change that!

C. S. Lewis wrote of George MacDonald: “I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself.” Lewis also claimed that everything he wrote was influenced by this Scottish pastor and novelist who lived a century before. George MacDonald serves as an act of appreciation, with Lewis gathering 365 of the best and most profound lines from...

Complaint against God is far nearer to God than indifference about Him. All the morning he was busy … with his heart in trying to content himself beforehand with whatever fate the Lord might intend for him. As yet he was more of a Christian philosopher than a philosophical Christian. The thing most disappointing to him he would treat as the will of God for him, and try to make up his mind to it, persuading himself it was the right and best thing—as
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