Stephen R. Lawhead quotes

A ley line is what might be called a field of force, a trail of telluric energy. There are hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, all over Britain, and they've been around since the Stone Age. (Stephen R. Lawhead)
Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.
Stephen R. Lawhead
You see, this universe we inhabit is made up of billions of galaxies-literally beyond counting-and this is only one universe.
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We in our present generation stand on the cusp of a new and glorious dawn when mastery of these energies lies fully within our grasp as secret yields to inquiry, which yields to experimentation, which leads to verification and duplication, which, in the final course, leads to knowledge.
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The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.
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None of us ever knows what impact we have on the world around us.
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It had long been an ambition to find the line of force that might lead to the Holy Land in the time of Christ.
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People did not go jumping from one place to another with nothing in between. It simply did not happen.
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Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways.
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Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.
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Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea. (Stephen R. Lawhead)
See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided - why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.
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Early man recognised these lines of force and marked them out on the landscape with, well, any old thing, really standing stones, ditches, mounds, tumps, sacred wells, and that sort of thing. And, later on, with churches, market crosses, crossroads, and whatnot.
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London had vanished. In place of the lively, thrusting metropolitan conurbation was an empty rural wilderness of damp brown fields under low autumnal skies.
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Here's to dodgy adventures with disreputable relatives!
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You really don't want to get lost.
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How very bright this empire of stars, he mused. Which poet had said that?
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If her hunch was right, the earl's explorations were connected in some way to ley travel: that peculiar phenomenon that had plucked her from the twenty-first century and dropped her so rudely into the seventeenth.
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Before Egypt, long before travelling to that time and place-or any other-became even a remote possibility, Mina had paid her dues. Haltingly, painstakingly, maddeningly.
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The very idea of a near-infinite array of universes made his head swim.
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Getting lost is the least of your worries. (Stephen R. Lawhead)
You're changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.
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Even well-known words were often pronounced differently and could have unfamiliar meanings; connotations were not fixed, but fluid. Definitions drifted. He was constantly brought up short by the sudden realization that what he thought he had said was not at all what he meant-at least as it had been understood by his hearers. Still, he was coming to grips with the slippery speech, and his confidence was growing.
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Little Archie's story is darker, more desperate, and yet drearily familiar.
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The great hulking eminence of the stone-age mound stood out as an ominous dark shadow.
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