N.D. Wilson

Quotes

• “A man's words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to be identi...”
• “Affectation is really a question of heart motive. Growing into a persona is an essential part of maturing. Anything you ...”
• “Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not ...”
• “Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do...”
• “I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head ea...”
• “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 blu...”
• “Slowly, Rupert Greeves raised his head. His eyelids fluttered and the corner of his mouth twitched up. 'What,' he asked ...”
• “I listened to you tell me, tell everyone, and all the world, “Praise the Lord.” You were broken, but not by bullets and ...”
• “Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This is H...”
• “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 ...”
• “The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.”
• “Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.Almost.It is death by living.”
• “But if that was going to happen, it was going to happen whether or not he worried about it.”
• “We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.”
• “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.”
• “I love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn't stuck in one place.”
• “May you fear no evil. ...And may evil fear you.”
• “God's big enough that small doesn't matter.”
• “Solomon smiles with us”