"Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be……" — N.D. Wilson
"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 have bones, make them strain - they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter."
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43 Quotes by N.D. Wilson
N.D. Wilson has 43 quotes on this site.
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Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the…
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We're all carnies, though some people are in denial. They want to be above it all, above the mayhem of…
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Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His…
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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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Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when…
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Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep…
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To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your…
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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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We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.
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