George MacDonald Quotes
God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
MacDonald, George. Unspoken Sermons. Second Series, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885.
This proposal and others like it over the years have never even gotten out of Committee.
Note that this point of view is somewhat anti-scientific. However, Mormonism is not monolithic. See {625544} .
The telegram was sent in the name of the Irish Cabinet of the new government. This quotation shows the unique relationship that the Irish Republic has had with the Catholic Church. There was probably no other non Muslim country in the world where a political leaders could get elected avowing this kind of loyalty and control by a religious hierarchy. See {639725} for the Irish leader’s drastic departure from the concept of separation of church and state.
George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. In addition to his fairy tales, MacDonald wrote several works of Christian theology, including several collections of sermons.