N.D. Wilson Quotes
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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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Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.
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I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see
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No place is ever the same tomorrow.
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We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.
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Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles
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Henry York, aka Whimpering Child, aka WC (hair sample included), is hereby identified as Enemy, Hazard, and Human Mishap to all faeren in all districts, in all ways, and in all worlds.
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The world is R-rated, and no one's checking IDs
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Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques
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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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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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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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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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Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.
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Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it.
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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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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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The world is rated R, and no one is checking IDs. Do not try to make it G by imagining the shadows away. Do not try to hide your children from the world forever, but do not pretend there is no danger . Train them. Give them sharp eyes and bellies full of laughter. Make them dangerous. Make them yeast, and when they’ve grown, they will pollute the shadows.
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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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In Bright Shadow: C.S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship
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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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Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed.
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Columbus was the first to come to the east. Vikings don't count, and neither do all the people who were standing on the beaches and waving when he got here.