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Similar categories in Brian D. McLaren's Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons book and William Raeper's George MacDonald

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"Yes, take your times seriously. Yes, know that you are judged by the terrible sins of your times. Yes, you do well to faint with fear and foreboding at what is coming on the world. And yet rejoice. R…"

-Brian D. McLaren, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

"I believe that whether we recognize him or not, or believe in him or not, or even know his name, again and again he comes and walks a little way with us along whatever road we're following. And I bel…"

-Brian D. McLaren, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

"God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be my own particular demon, a floating sense of doom that has ruined many of what coul…"

-Brian D. McLaren, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

"We are above all things loved--that is the good news of the gospel--and loved not just the way we turn up on Sundays in our best clothes and on our best behavior and with our best feet forward, but l…"

-Brian D. McLaren, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

Similar categories in Frederick Buechner's Godric book and William Raeper's George MacDonald

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce book and William Raeper's George MacDonald

"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces book and William Raeper's George MacDonald

Similar categories in David C. Downing's Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C. S. Lewis book and William Raeper's George MacDonald

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Similar categories in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion book and William Raeper's George MacDonald

"Nightingales sang about her wherever she went."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

"The dawn is brief and the day full often belies its promise."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

"All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

"No ames demasiado la obra de tus manos ni las invenciones de tu corazón."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

Similar categories in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden book and William Raeper's George MacDonald

"Might I,"

-Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

"They're a pair of young Satans."

-Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

"You said th' Magic was in my back. Th' doctor calls it rheumatics."

-Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."

-Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

Similar categories in George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1) book and William Raeper's George MacDonald

"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?"

-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)

"But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."…"

-George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)

Similar categories in Russ Ramsey's Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith book and William Raeper's George MacDonald

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"The pattern in Scripture is that of God working through unlikely servants for the glory of his name and the spread of the gospel."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"The more we engage with beauty, the more we train our hearts to anticipate finding beauty, until eventually, everywhere we go, we're looking for it."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"Many artists took their easels and paints outside and captured what they saw. Vincent wanted to capture what he felt as he tried to remember what he saw."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"Vincent didn't see the world as a collection of plain, unaffected objects. He saw the unfolding drama of the human story, which to him was a heartbreaking tale."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's Letters of C. S. Lewis book and William Raeper's George MacDonald

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"Isn’t it funny the way some combinations of words can give you – apart from their meaning – a thrill like music?"

-C.S. Lewis, Letters of C. S. Lewis

"Don’t you simply love going to bed. To curl up warmly in a nice warm bed, in the lovely darkness. That is so restful and then gradually drift away into sleep…"

-C.S. Lewis, Letters of C. S. Lewis

"Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be …"

-C.S. Lewis, Letters of C. S. Lewis

"A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to…"

-C.S. Lewis, Letters of C. S. Lewis

Similar categories in George MacDonald's Malcolm book and William Raeper's George MacDonald

"...he believed in God and he believed that when the human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because it is its own."

-George MacDonald, Malcolm

"Do you really suppose God cares whether a man comes to good or ill?" "If He did not, He could not be good himself..." "...Then He can't be so hard on us as the parsons say, even in the after-life?" "…"

-George MacDonald, Malcolm

"A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all take time to grow, and so must a library. I wouldn't even know what books to go and ask for. I dare sa…"

-George MacDonald, Malcolm

"The claim that hung over him haunted his very life, turning the currents of his thought into channels of speculation unknown before. One day when these questions were fighting in his heart, all at on…"

-George MacDonald, Malcolm

Similar categories in George MacDonald's The Diary of an Old Soul book and William Raeper's George MacDonald

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"I am a beast until I love as God doth love."

-George MacDonald, The Diary of an Old Soul

"Thou wouldst not have thy man crushed back to clay; It must be, God, thou hast strength to give To him that fain would do what thou dost say; Else how shall any soul repentant live, Old griefs and ne…"

-George MacDonald, The Diary of an Old Soul

"Love me, beloved; Hades and Death Shall vanish away like a frosty breath; These hands, that now are at home in thine, Shall clasp thee again, if thou art still mine; And thou shalt be mine, my spirit…"

-George MacDonald, The Diary of an Old Soul

Similar categories in William Raeper's George MacDonald book and William Raeper's George MacDonald

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• biography