N.D. Wilson

“It’s the dull knife that cuts you.”

— N.D. Wilson

No place is ever the same tomorrow.

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“You can't buy history new.”

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“...live hard and die grateful.”

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“snow is overused.”

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“Solomon smiles with us”

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“Do your best. Live. Create. Fail.”

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“and I don't have to hold on with anything more than my toes”

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Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed.

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“And I'd be daft to believe you, yeah?”

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May my living be grace to those behind me.

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I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see

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“Nietzsche- a weak but strongly mustachioed, Lutheran Pastor's son.”

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Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.

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If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it?

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“and a smaller, sad, little-dead-poet sphere with acne scars spins around us lighting the night...”

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“Infinite goes all the way up and all the way down; and at every level, with equal attention, He creates with the…

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“Tom shut his eyes again, because when his eyes were shut, he could tell himself that there was light.”

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“Love burns hotter than justice, and its roar is thunder. Beside love, even wrath whispers.”

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The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.

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Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really…

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Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.

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We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.

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“I have ridden with death, and walked beside it. Some say I have sought it. The search would not have been difficult,…

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“Gilbert Keith Chesterton (that fabulously large Catholic writer) overheard someone making fun of Milton (it didn't matter that the insults were all…

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Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock…

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“Affectation is really a question of heart motive. Growing into a persona is an essential part of maturing. Anything you might choose…

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“A neutral observer would not find this world to be believable. Ergo, the cause of said unbelievable world must place similar stretch…

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Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while…

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Every rock is spoon by the Word. Every time I touch a stone, I am touching the Voice of God. Every cell…

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Here Spring just grows and greens and warms, spreading life, wrapping us in her arms, until suddenly we realize that she's not…

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Kansas is not easily impressed. It has seen houses fly and cattle soar. When funnel clouds walk through the wheat, big hail…

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“This world is beautiful but badly broken. St. Paul said that it groans, but I love it even in its groaning. I…

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God is a God of galaxies, of storms, of roaring seas and boiling thunder, but He is also the God of bread…

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Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the…

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“In this world, there is no true freeze frame. Pictures do not escape time. But they do sit in it. Pictures are…

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If God gives you (or makes you) a joke, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Laugh.) If God…

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As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by…

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“Do not cry to me. I can only cry with you. I will not die for you. I am still too young…

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“Butter laughed beneath sea salt, and gravy anointed them both.”

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