All N.D. Wilson Quotes
- 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… Act
- 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… All
- 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… Began
- The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue. Evil
- The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty. Always Lived
- Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others. Dying
- 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… Burden
- Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away. All
- 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.… All
- 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,… Along
- Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give. Exhaustion
- 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… Blister
- We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms. Catechism
- Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring." Always Breakfast
- Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. Defeating
- 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,… Able
- You fainted,' Tom said. Reg coughed. No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out. Afraid
- 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… All
- 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… Air
- 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… Admirable
- In the history of the world there have been lots of onces and lots of times, and every time has had a once upon it.… All
- Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age. Age
- After three years down here, I've not learned too much. But one thing I do know is that our bellies aren't big enough for revenge.… Bellies
- Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that… Attempt
- Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe… Believe