32 quotes found
“Solomon smiles with us”
“God's big enough that small doesn't matter.”
“May you fear no evil. ...And may evil fear you.”
“I love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn't stuck in one place.”
“I love it with all of its villains and pretty liars and self-righteous pompers”
“It has thick skin, and all the most important thinkers have become part of it.”
“What is the world? What is it for? It is an art. It is the best of all possible art, a finite picture of the infinite. Assess it like prose, like poetry, like architecture, sculpture, painting, dan...”
“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 self...”
“Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain-they can carry nothin...”
“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.”
“A man's words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to be identified with him. Out of the abundance of the heart, the man speaks. The foundat...”
“We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishmentnarrative catechisms.”
“Tom shut his eyes again, because when his eyes were shut, he could tell himself that there was light.”
“Henry successfully kept his mind on the game, which might seem strange for a boy who slept beside a wall of magic. But baseball was as magical to him as a green, mossy mountain covered in ancient t...”
“Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.Almost.It is death by living.”
“The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.”
“Affectation is really a question of heart motive. Growing into a persona is an essential part of maturing. Anything you might choose to do is going to contribute to one persona or another. People w...”
“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.”
“I listened to you tell me, tell everyone, and all the world, Praise the Lord. You were broken, but not by bullets and bombs. You were broken by grace.”
“To exist in this poem [of creation] is a greater gift than any finite creature can imagine. To be so insignificant and yet still be given a speaking part, to be given scenes that are my own, and my...”
“Henry flopped onto his bed, and his steam leaked slowly out. He began telling himself a story in his head. It was about how just and kind and understanding he was. It was about right he had been, h...”
