"We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative……" — N.D. Wilson
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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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Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister…
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More Catechism Quotes
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But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of…
— George Herbert
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Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God,"…
— George Washington Cable
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs,…
— Erica Jong
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The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how…
— Mike Aquilina
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If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him? The Catechism…
— Pope Francis
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I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying…
— Rocco Buttiglione
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The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then…
— C.S. Lewis
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The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.
— Martin Luther
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. . . Practice teaching catechism and preaching. Missionaries must apply themselves to these tasks and although they do not…
— Vincent de Paul
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Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world…
— Gregory Maguire
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