pI know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself, C.S. Lewis wrote about nineteenth-century writer, clergyman and Christian thinker George MacDonald. Lewis, who saw MacDonald as an important Christian teacher, compiled this collection of 365 passages from MacDonald's work. These wise words will instruct, uplift and inspire readers of today, just as they did when first published in the nineteenth century, and again when read by Lewis in the twentieth. pp George MacDonald 1824-1905 was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Briefly a clergyman, then a professor of English literature at Bedford and King's College in London, he was a popular lecturer and published poetry, stories, novels, and fairy tales. pp Clive Staples Lewis 1898-1963 was born in Belfast. He was a fellow and tutor in English Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford, and later was Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, where he r