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 selfless courage is a victory in itself.
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.
Tom shut his eyes again, because when his eyes were shut, he could tell himself that there was light.
We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.
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.
The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.
Stories are like catechisms, but they’re catechisms for your impulses, they’re catechisms with flesh on.
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.
Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.Almost.It is death by living.
I love it with all of its villains and pretty liars and self-righteous pompers
I love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn’t stuck in one place.
It has thick skin, and all the most important thinkers have become part of it.
Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This is His spoken word.
Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.
Slowly, Rupert Greeves raised his head. His eyelids fluttered and the corner of his mouth twitched up. ‘What,’ he asked the world, ‘can you do to erase my laughter?
But if that was going to happen, it was going to happen whether or not he worried about it.