George MacDonald audiobook

Nothing like reading a book about your favorite author, written by your second-favorite author! :)

Two 5-star ratings from me in one week! That is almost unheard of! But this one deserves it. This was my daily read for 2017 and I just wrapped it up and it was all that I hoped and I will be referring back to it over and over again. C.S. Lewis obviously loved MacDonald and chose a powerful anthology. If you want a taste of MacDonald, you must get your hands on this one, but, beware, it is MEATY stuff and you cannot fly through it. Obviously I cannot offer up all of my favourite quotes on this one, but I will offer up the one that is going to carry over and be my motivational quote for 2018.“The man who for consciousness of well-being depends upon anything but life, the life essential, is a slave; he hangs on what is less than himself…Things are given us – this body, first of things – that through them we may be trained both to independence and true possession of them. We must possess them; they must not possess us. Their use is to mediate – as shapes and manifestations in lower kind of the things that are unseen, that is, in themselves unseeable, the things that belong, not to the world of speech but the world of silence, not to the world of showing, but the world of being, the world that cannot be shaken, and must remain. These things unseen take the form in the things of time and space – not that they may exist, for they exist in and from eternal Godhead, but that their being may be known to those in training for the eternal; these things unseen the sons and daughters of God must possess. But instead of reaching out after them, they grasp at their forms, regard the things seen as the things to be possessed, fall in love with the bodies instead of the souls of them.”

I really enjoyed this book. I’m a Lewis enthusiast and to read the quotes he selected from MacDonald was a joy to read. It’s obvious when reading these selections how much MacDonald influenced Lewis, in fact many of the sentiments are echoed in the things Lewis wrote himself. It’s not a overly lengthy book but one I’d refer to in the future. A great addition to my Lewis library.

Excellent. Its like Proverbs or Penses for the late 19th century. Very well selected by CS Lewis from the works of George MacDonald.

Recently, HarperOne has re-released nine of C.S. Lewis' classic works with all new covers, deckle-edged pages, and french flaps! The titles include The Abolition of Man, A Grief Observed, The Great Divorce, Mere Christianity, Miracles, The Screwtape Letters, The Problem of Pain, George MacDonald, The Weight of Glory. I will be reviewing two of these works today and feature others throughout the coming months on my blog. Without further ado, let's get to the reviews!I have been reading a lot of George MacDonald's works lately, due to his influence on Lewis, Tolkien, and other members of the Inklings. Therefore, when I found out about Lewis' work George MacDonald, I knew I had to read it. I wasn't really sure what to expect, but I was expecting a biography of sorts. Instead, it is a selection of 365 "pearls of wisdom" from MacDonald himself. In a way you could view it as a George MacDonald daily devotional. The book is well under 200 pages, so each quote is only a few lines to half a page at most. Thankfully there is an index which lists all the sources for each quote, so if you are so inclined to read the full work, you know exactly where to find it. This is a major plus. Here is one of the pearls, entitled "Spiritual Murder.""It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a passion; the latter is the heart's choice. It is a spiritual murder, the worst, to hate, to brood over the feeling that excludes, that, in our microcosm, kills the image, the idea of the hated."C.S. Lewis' preface provided a nice glimpse from an outsider and provided a biography recommendation on George MacDonald. Overall, this book is the perfect book to provide a glimpse of MacDonald and whet your appetite and encourage you to read more of his works. I read through this book very quickly, which you can do too, but with 365 readings, you can take about one minute a day and read through it in a year.

I did not know what I was getting into when I started this book, but after understanding it I ended up very much enjoying it.

Well this was sweet: CS Lewis’s commonplace book of George MacDonald. It was my first taste of MacDonald, and very enjoyable. He can be dense and Victorian, but I loved detecting (in his ideas and in his more lucid prose) his profound influence on CS Lewis. This felt like listening to Haydn for the first time after decades of Mozart.

A nice anthology... almost every quote is worth chewing on for at least a day.

This book has had such a profound effect on me. I will return to these pages over and over again for the rest of my days.“Thy hand be on the latch to open the door at His firstknock. Shouldst thou open the door and not see Him,do not say He did not knock, but understand that He isthere, and wants thee to go out to Him. It may be Hehas something for thee to do for Him Go and do it,and perhaps thou wilt return with a new prayer, to find a new window in thy soul”😭“My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not;I think thy answers make me what I am.Like weary waves thought follows upon thought,But the still depth beneath is all thine own,And there thou mov'st in paths to us unknown.Out of strange strife thy peace is strangely wrought;If the lion in us pray -thou answerest the lamb.”

I understand C.S. Lewis slightly better. The structure of the book was difficult for me to internalize. It is a bunch of excerpts from George MacDonald's writings. This book is the place to survey the rest of George MacDonald's works. Or if there is a topic you are interested in- you could pick it up and flip to that section. To be fair I flew through this book which is probably not the suggested way to consume. The quotes in this book would be good for starting a spiritual conversation with a friend on any topic.

365 quotes by George MacDonald, compiled by C S Lewis. Wow. This provides insight into both of these favorite authors. The readings are great for daily devotional type settings, but I can’t say I got something out of every quote, so most days I would read until I found a great one - which didn’t oft

C.S. Lewis regularly talked about the immense impact that George MacDonald had on him as both a Christian and a writer. In this book you have a whole collection of Lewis' favorite quotes from MacDonald's writings. Not a book to read in one sitting cover to cover, but I've enjoyed flipping through and pausing on quotes day but day.

I "read" during my daily commute over the course of a few days. In retrospect, given that it is just a series of short independent packages, this is one that would be best read leisurely, with time for extended contemplation on the more affecting or intriguing quotes. And ultimately I enjoyed it enough that I will be re-reading it in just that way.The introduction by C.S. Lewis was worth reading on its own merit. In particular, the distinction he draws between the art of writing and the art of myth-making is both insightful and important. Any work of fiction is necessarily a multi-dimensional work, necessarily comprised of elements that may be executed with more or less skill, and merely serviceable writing need not detract from delight in the more exceptional aspects. (Though my experience of MacDonald's fiction is more limited than Lewis, I think I might be more charitable than he is in my evaluation. I find MacDonald's locution consistently pleasing, peppered with turns of phrase that deserve a pause for appreciation.)