I believe in Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, my elder brother, my lord and master; I believe that he has a right to my absolute obedience whereinsover I know or shall come to know his will; that to obey him is to ascend the pinnacle of my being; that not to obey him would be to deny him...
MacDonald on the Atonement
An Introduction to MacDonald's Unspoken Sermons
In his sermon entitled The Mirrors of the Lord, George MacDonald states that โof all writers I know,{the apostle}Paul seems to me the most plainly, the most determinedly practical in his writing. What has been called his mysticism is at one time the exercise of a power of seeing, as by spiritual refraction, truths that had not, perhaps have not yet, risen above the human horizon.โ Just the same could be said of MacDonald himself, and nowhere more so than in the three volumes of his Unspoken Sermons...