N.D. Wilson Quotes

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• Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved…
• We're all carnies, though some people are in denial. They want to be above it all, above the mayhem of laughter and people and lights…
• Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell…
• The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.
• The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.
• Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.
• Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend…
• Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.
• To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your enemies of their greatest weapon.…
• Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits,…
• Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.
• Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You…
• We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.
• Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."
• Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it.
• Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it,…
• You fainted,' Tom said. Reg coughed. No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out.
• Columbus was the first to come to the east. Vikings don't count, and neither do all the people who were standing on the beaches and…
• After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving behind…
• Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot…

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