Stephen R. Lawhead Quotes

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To friends! Life belongs to those who love, and where love reigns is man truly king!

Stephen R. Lawhead

Kings, Men, Reign

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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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Song, Truth, Heart

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Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded.

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Taken, Burden, Discarded

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Tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a crown for your head; I will speak the flowers of the field into a cloak; I will speak the racing stream into a melody for your ears and the voices of a thousand larks to sing it; I will speak the softness of night for your bed and the warmth of summer for your coverlet; I will speak the brightness of flame to light your way and the luster of gold to shine in your smile; I will speak until the hardness in you melts away and your heart is free.

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Summer, Stars, Flower

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Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck

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Thinking, Impossible, Possibility

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We are closest to Christ when sharing the world’s misery. Think you Jesus came to remove our pains? Wherever did you get that notion? The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond. We can overcome our travails. That is the promise of the cross.

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Jesus, Pain, Thinking

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It is the poor man who clenches so tightly to the gold he is given - for fear of losing it. The man of wealth spends his gold freely to accomplish his will in the world. It is the same with life.' Suddenly ashamed of my conspicuous poverty, I lowered my eyes. But Scatha placed a hand beneath my chin and raised my head. 'Cling too tightly to your life and you will lose it, my Reluctant Warrior. You must become the master of your life, not its slave.

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Eye, Warrior, Men

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How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

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Brother, Men, Light

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Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as the bond between true friends.

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True Friend, Two Friends, Stronger

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If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

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Inspirational, Teacher, Justice

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Life is a school of the spirit.

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School, Spirit, Life Is

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Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways.

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Way, Mystery, Existence

Stephen R. Lawhead (2013). “The Bone House: A Bright Empires Novel, Book 2”, p.159, Lion Fiction

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I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful of pond water beside the vast ocean of longing I felt surging through me. My head swam; my eyes blurred. I burned from the inside out as if my blood and bones were consumed with liquid fire.

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Ocean, Eye, Fire

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Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend.

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Delight, Truth Is, Constant

Stephen R. Lawhead (2009). “Byzantium”, p.46, Harper Collins

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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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Lying, Yield, Secret

"The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.

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True poetry is born of scrutiny,
Scrutiny, the son of meditation,
Meditation, the son of lore,
Lore, the son of inquiry,
Inquiry, the son of investigation,
Investigation, the son of knowledge,
Knowledge, the son of understanding,
Understanding, the son of wisdom,
Wisdom, the son of surrender to the Divine Will
Thus it is with the poet himself: his art is powerful, protecting, elevating, and his judgement straight and strong

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Art, Strong, Powerful

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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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Men, Old Things, Church

"The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.

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They are young and life has no limits. Nothing is impossible, nothing beyond doing or knowing. The world is theirs and everything in it.

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Knowing, World, Limits

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Three things cannot be called back: the arrow when it speeds from the bow, the milk when the churn is upturned, the word when it leaps from the tongue.

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Arrows, Three, Tongue

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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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Evil, Understanding, World

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None of us ever knows what impact we have on the world around us.

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Impact, World, Knows

Stephen R. Lawhead (2013). “The Bone House: A Bright Empires Novel, Book 2”, p.163, Lion Fiction

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The path is revealed in the treading.

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Path, Treading

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Well, I was thinking this very thing. I was thinking: I am going to die today, but Jesu also died, so he knows how it is with me. And I was thinking, would he know me when I came to him? Yes! Sitting in his hall, he will see me sail into the bay, and he will run down to meet me on the shore; he will wade into the sea and pull my boat onto the sand and welcome me as his wayfaring brother. Why will he do this? Because he too has suffered, and he knows...HE KNOWS...Is that not good news?

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Running, Brother, Thinking

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We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the fervor I possessed. A lifetime of vows and heart-felt disciplines had prepared me well, for in that kiss I sealed with all my soul the fate before me, embracing a mystery clothed in warm and yielding female flesh. Holding only the moment, with neither thought nor care for the future, I kissed her, and drank deep the strong wine of desire.

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Strong, Passion, Heart

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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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Kindness, Mean, Simple

"The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.

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