N.D. Wilson Quotes
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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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I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.
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In Bright Shadow: C.S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship
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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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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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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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Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.
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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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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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Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles
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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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Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.
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Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques
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We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.
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Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it.
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The world is R-rated, and no one's checking IDs
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Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed.
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Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.
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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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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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Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."
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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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Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.