Unspoken Sermons, Series I., II., and III.
George MacDonald wrote sermons that refuse to preach at you. Instead, they lean close and whisper truths too delicate for thundering pulpits. The Unspoken Sermons begin where all spiritual deepest thinking begins: with a child placed among disciples, and the radical claim that to enter God's kingdom, you must become like that child. But MacDonald is no sentimentalist. He knows that childlikeness has nothing to do with childishness, and everything to do with a kind of fearless openness, an willingness to be changed by what you cannot control. Across these three series, he meditates on forgiveness, love, and the scandalous idea that God might be found not in grand theological systems but in the everyday moments we habitually overlook. His prose has the quality of deep water: calm on the surface, fathomless beneath. Victorian in setting but startlingly modern in sensibility, these sermons influenced C.S. Lewis profoundly and continue to offer readers something rare in any era: a faith that feels expansive rather than restrictive, and a vision of divine love that does not coerce but invites. For anyone who has ever found church language inadequate to their hunger, MacDonald offers another way.
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“All that is not God is death.””
— George MacDonald
“If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence””
— George MacDonald
“We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because we gaze at the marks of our own soiled feet, and the trail of our own defiled garments.... Each, putting his foot in the footprint of the Master, and so defacing it, turns to examine how far his neighbor’s footprint corresponds with that which he still calls the Master’s, although it is but his own.””
— George MacDonald
“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 moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice.””
— George MacDonald
“It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.””
— George MacDonald
“Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed.””
— George MacDonald
“To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.””
— George MacDonald
“God is all right”
— George MacDonald
“To will not from self, but with the Eternal, is to live.””
— George MacDonald
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