N. D. Wilson Short Quotes

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If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it?

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Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.

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Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.

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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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The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive.

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Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."

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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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The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.

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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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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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Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.

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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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Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others...

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Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age.

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It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.

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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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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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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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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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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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