George MacDonald Frasi e Citazioni
“Il principio primo dell'inferno è: «Io sono mio.»”
Origine: Citato in C.S. Lewis, Sorpreso dalla gioia: i primi anni della mia vita, traduzione di Franco Marano, TEA, Milano, 1994, p. 155. ISBN 88-7819-386-0
George MacDonald: Frasi in inglese
“Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.”
Origine: At the Back of the North Wind
From ‘’Justice’’ in Unspoken Sermons Series III (1889)
Contesto: If sin must be kept alive, then hell must be kept alive; but while I regard the smallest sin as infinitely loathsome, I do not believe that any being, never good enough to see the essential ugliness of sin, could sin so as to deserve such punishment. I am not now, however, dealing with the question of the duration of punishment, but with the idea of punishment itself; and would only say in passing, that the notion that a creature born imperfect, nay, born with impulses to evil not of his own generating, and which he could not help having, a creature to whom the true face of God was never presented, and by whom it never could have been seen, should be thus condemned, is as loathsome a lie against God as could find place in heart too undeveloped to understand what justice is, and too low to look up into the face of Jesus.
‘’It Shall Not Be Forgiven’’
Unspoken Sermons, First Series (1867)
Origine: Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
“My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not;
I think thy answers make me what I am.”
Origine: The Diary of an Old Soul & the White Page Poems
Origine: At the Back of the North Wind (1871), Chapter 18
“There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.”
Origine: Lilith
