N.D. Wilson Quotes
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As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.
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Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are, and were perhaps bolder. This world is their tomb. You should look under the bed.
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In Bright Shadow: C.S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship
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Self-loathing and self-worship can easily be the same thing. You hate the small sack of fluids and resentments that you are, and you would go to any length, and betray anything and anyone, to preserve it.
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Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.
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Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side.
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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 they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.
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Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.
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Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles
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I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see
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Here Spring just grows and greens and warms, spreading life, wrapping us in her arms, until suddenly we realize that she's not a girl anymore. She's a woman. A woman named Summer.
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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 your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.
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Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques
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Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it.
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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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We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.
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The world is R-rated, and no one's checking IDs
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That wasn't me. I'm not a morning person. There's another person inside of me that does all the morning things.
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Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.
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Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed.
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Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.
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You fainted,' Tom said. Reg coughed. No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out.
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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 the secretive sounds, the shy sounds, the whispers and conversations of moss disputing with grass over some soft piece of earth, or the hummingbird snoring.
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Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded--under torch and hammer and chisel--into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God.