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George MacDonald

10-Dec-1824

United States

Novelist

George MacDonald lived from 10 December 1824 to 18 September 1905. He was a church pastor who became the first author of fictional fiction. Detailed photographs in Scotland at the time were described in Our History Line. George MacDonald was born in Huntly. His father was a skilled farmer, tracing his roots back to MacDonalds in Glen Coe during the 1692 massacre. After studying at Huntly, MacDonald graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1844 and then moved to London, where he studied at Highbury College to become a pastor at Churchship Church. In 1850 he was ordained pastor of Tratuan Corporate Church in Arundel. MacDonald was unsuccessful as a church minister and in 1853 was asked to resign. He later took a church position in Manchester, but resigned due to illness.

QUOTES BY George MacDonald

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

Uplifting

"Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness."

Uplifting

"Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw."

Uplifting

"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."