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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Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.
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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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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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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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Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.
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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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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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Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it.
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We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.
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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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The world is R-rated, and no one's checking IDs
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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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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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Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.
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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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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.