Stephen R. Lawhead quotes - page 2

When next you turn your eyes to the vast reaches of heaven, gentlemen, you would be well advised to remember that not only is it far more magnificent than the human mind can fathom, it is far more subtle. All the universe is permeated, upheld, knit together, conjoined, encompassed, and contained by the Elemental Ether, which we recognise as an all-pervading, responsive, and intelligent field of energy, eternal and inexhaustible, which is nothing less than the ground of our very being and the wellspring of our existence-that which in ages past and present men have been pleased to call God. (Stephen R. Lawhead)
He was a stranger in a strange land: lost in the cosmos, a man with neither compass nor guide, sitting in a tomb in Egypt surrounded by the dead, with Giles-a man his own age, but separated by class and sensibility and four hundred years-looking to him for answers.
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These dimensions impinge on one another. They touch. They interpenetrate. And where one dimension touches or passes through another, it forms a line of force on the landscape.
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But isn't that hazardous-messing with events?
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Certainty sent a sick dread snaking through his gut: he was being stalked.
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A favourite saying in China-which she had heard on occasion from her own grandmother-was that the threads of life are easy to weave, but difficult to untangle.
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You spend too much time alone, too much time watching television, and too little time cultivating the inner man. You live in a squalid little flat in what is referred to as a no-go zone from which your friends, of whom you see less and less, have all fled for the suburbs long ago with wives and sprogs in tow. You are exceedingly unlucky in love, having invested years in a romantic relationship which, as you know only too well, is neither romantic nor much of a relationship. In short, you have all the social prospects of a garden gnome.
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To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.
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If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.
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Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart.
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Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend. (Stephen R. Lawhead)
When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand?
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Humility, if it comes at all, almost always comes too late.
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Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded.
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Words are worth little when the heart refuses to hear. Therefore, judge us by our works.
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I've moved heaven and earth to find you.
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If the heat doesn't kill you,” he mused, "the flies surely will.
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Once again he felt the now-familiar tingle on his skin, as when, just before a lightning strike, the air becomes electrically charged.
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His last thought, as sleep overtook him, was that it was true what Cosimo had said: the universe was far stranger than anyone imagined, or could imagine.
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Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck.
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What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death. (Stephen R. Lawhead)