"Do you dislike your role in the story,……" — N.D. Wilson
"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 at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene."
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43 Quotes by N.D. Wilson
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The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule,…
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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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Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.
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Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are…
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Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.
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