Top 100 Stephen R. Lawhead Quotes
#1. For if there was to be any transformation in the spiritual orientation of the pilgrim's soul, that change would take place not on arrival as if by magic, but in the long, hard work of The Way.
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#3. And the Wise Emrys said that Arthur would yet come again to lead his own.
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#5. as is most always the case with any disaster, it is those who can least afford to lose who lose the most.
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#7. It has ever been thus. The way is hard and narrow, it is true. But it is a path beaten smooth by the countless others who have gone before us. And good news! We do not have to walk it alone. God Himself is with us and has blessed us with friends for the journey.
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#8. In every person there is a soul, In every soul there is intelligence, In every intelligence there is thought, In every thought there is either good or evil, In every evil there is death, In every good there is life, In every life there is God.
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#9. I searched until I panted for breath, but could not find it. The solid stone structure was nowhere to be seen. The house was gone - and Merlin with it.
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#10. 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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#12. An artist must be pure of heart," said Gerdes, "for true art is the expression of the artist's innermost being. To create beauty, one must be beautiful" - she pressed her hands to her bosom - "in here, in your heart of hearts.
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#14. It does not matter where one starts; it is where one finishes that makes all the difference.
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#15. The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.
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#16. In order to welcome redemption, one must first embrace the utter hopelessness of failure. For how can a man look for rescue unless he knows he is truly lost?
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#19. I will write: for myself, for those who come after, and for the voices that cry out not to be forgotten.
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#21. Apart from pleasure, beauty also kindles imagination, hope and encouragement. If beauty ceased to exist, we would, in a very real sense, cease to exist
for we would be no longer who we are.
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#24. See here, if we can establish an affinity with the eternal, ever-living Creator, then is it not likely that this affinity, this relationship, if you like, will endure beyond the death of the material body?
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#26. A man can learn much, but learning is not knowledge. The only true source of infallible certainity is divine illumination.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. Truth, they say, is a cold and bitter draught; few drink it undiluted.
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#32. I saw Byzantium in a dream and knew that I would die there.. and the golden towers of Byzantium would be my tomb ~ Aidan
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#33. Great Light, the Enemy's power is so fragile! The devils can use only what we ourselves will give them. Do you see? Give them nothing and their power fails; it falls like a spent arrow, like a blade broken and blunted.
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#35. This is our work in creation: to decide. And what we decide is woven into the thread of time and being forever. Choose wisely, then, but you must choose." Great
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#36. Words are worth little when the heart refuses to hear. Therefore, judge us by our works.
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#37. Shape our reality through the exercise of intention, through the application of our free will as conscious beings.
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#38. That Arthur has not always existed seems odd to me. Like the wind on the moors and the wild winter stars, surely he has always lived ... and always will.
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#39. It would be a great boon to know where we stand in this world, what is, what has been, what will be. And to know it absolutely.
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#40. What did you do with your life, Master Bran?" she demanded accusingly. "More to the point, what will you do with your life now that you have it back?
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#41. We will journey in hope, and trust the Swift Sure Hand to guide us.'
'A little guidance would not go amiss right now,' I confessed, gazing out at the trackless waste of hills and empty sky.
'Llew,' he said, 'we have ever been led.
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#42. The dead are so long dead," explained Merlin. "Better to have lived while alive, yes? Besides, if they achieve this, they will have conquered a giant; they will be invincible!
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#44. Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend.
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#45. 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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#46. Alas, words were but empty things, devoid of power and all too easily broken, discarded, and forgotten.
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#47. 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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#49. The female heart is a world unto itself, incomprehensible to men. Yet I perceive that you have been of a mood today: pensive, contemplative, hesitant, expectant. And you have spent the better part of the day watching me as if you thought I might follow your merlin into the sky and never return.
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#51. Time is short and life fleeting and that nothing matters except that which is eternal.
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#52. Had he but known that before the day was over he would discover the hidden dimensions of the universe, Kit might have been better prepared.
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#53. Your faith is admirable, Pelleas. But I know nothing of sorcery. As it is, I have not been able to discover how the spell may be broken or how Merlin may be released from it.
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#54. It was Arthur's welcome alone, I believe, which turned the tide of misery for Merlin.
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#55. Fear arises from uncertainty. Where there is perfect certainty, there is no fear.
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#56. Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance.
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#57. I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.
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#58. 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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#59. Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened.
- Friar Tuck
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#60. In truth I had forgotten all about Arthur and our reason for coming to Benowyc in the first place.
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#61. 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.
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#62. I could not see the unholy creature, but I could feel the bone-aching chill of its presence, and I heard the howl of its mindless hate. I quailed to think of the power that had called it into being and loosed it on the world.
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#65. Talent without discipline is only an empty promise - the glitter of an unworked crystal. It is nothing of itself.
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#66. Prayer is our greatest and most salutary weapon in the eternal battle," put in the man called Schecter, joining them. He took a sip of coffee and continued, "No less than gravity, prayer is one of the elemental forces that moves the world. We underestimate it at our peril.
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#67. Stop, Morgian. Your wiles cannot avail you now.' He turned to the High King and said, 'The hurt this woman has done me, I readily forgive. It is for the harm that she has caused others that she is to be judged.
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#68. It is but one of the many follies of luxury which lead men to believe that plenty now is abundance always and fortune is everlasting. Pure folly. My
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#69. Young Bran, striving to please and yearning for the approving touch of a father's hand, only ever saw that hand raised in anger. Thus, he learned at an early age that since he could never please his father, he might as well please himself.
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#70. As I understand it, the Celts venerated all sorts of plexus-type things: the seashore, dawn, dusk, the edge of the forest - anything that was neither here nor there, so to speak.
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#71. Life is a school of the spirit, Aidan," Ruadh intoned with gentle insistence. "Learning is our soul's requirement, and
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#72. Myrddin', I said gently, 'what is she to you?'
His head whipped round and he glared at me. His mouth was a grimace of revulsion, and his eyes were hard, bright points of pain. 'She is my death
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#73. 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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#75. God has always worked through the small, the insignificant, the powerless - it seems to be sewn into the very fabric of the universe.
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#76. All human beings, by virtue of having been born into this world, are immortal beings - not our material bodies; those are sadly quite fragile, inasmuch as they are bound by the laws of matter and time. The spirit, however, is indestructible. It obeys different laws.
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#77. Bright-kindled from heavenly flames,
framed of Love's all-consuming fire,
Ignited of purest passion,
Burning in the Creator King's heart,
A splendor of bliss to illuminate Albion!
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#78. Arthur stood alone in the centre of the ring of kings. In the flickering light of the Christ Mass candles, holding the sword easily by the hilt, alert, resolute, unafraid, he appeared an avenging angels, eyes alight with the bright fire of righteousness.
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#79. What makes you so certain?"
"But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?"
"Yes!"
"Then you want death.
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#80. Then again, what Cosimo had said was right: he was nothing but an overworked drone in a cube farm, a minor cog in the dreary machinery of a third-rate mortgage mill, overlooked, unloved, a sidelined player in the big game,
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#81. Raising an army of king's men with the king in an enemy prison?" Tuck queried. "What is difficult about that?" "I don't think he even has an army." "Well, that would make it slightly more tricky, I suppose," remarked Tuck.
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#82. The Emrys! The Emrys is here!'
Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children know me by sight.
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#83. Who upholds the gorsedd if not You? Who counts the ages of the world if not You? Who commands the Wheel of Heaven if not You? Who quickens life in the womb if not You? Therefore, God of All Virtue and Power, sain us and shield us with Your Swift Sure Hand.
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#85. I raised my spear to heaven. 'For God and Britain!' I cried, and my cry was answered in kind. And then I was racing down the hillside, my cloak rippling out behind me, the wind singing from my dark-glinting spearhead.
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#86. Arthur!' I cried, but my voice was lost in the battle roar. The seething waters of the enemy host closed over the place where he had been.
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#87. Anyone who tells you he knows the mind of God is selling something. You can take that to the bank.
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#89. He sighed and shook his head slowly. 'And there will be no bringing back the light once it has gone.
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#90. The only true source of infallible certainty is divine illumination.
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#91. Whatever is done cannot be undone, but whatever is lost can sometimes be found.
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#92. There cannot be even the smallest grain of falsehood in it or it is not truth. I have discovered the source of all truth; how can I deny what I know?
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#93. Justice ought sometimes to protect those least able to protect themselves.
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#94. All that winter's day and far into the night the kings twisted and squirmed, but Merlin held them in his iron grasp and would not let go. He became first a rock, and then a mountain in Arthur's defence. Arthur stood equally unmoved. No power on earth could have prevailed against them ...
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#95. It is right to pay heed to the stories of our people, for that is how we learn who we are and what is required of us in this life and the life beyond.
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#97. When iniquity sits in the judgement seat, good men must take their appeals to a higher court.
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#98. In my years as a priest and a scientist, I have been guided by two allied principles," Gianni began. "One, that the universe was created for a purpose. And two, that the purpose for which it was created was guided by a loving Creator who desired that its purpose should be fulfilled." He
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#99. Albion was many times larger in every way than the tidily compacted Britain I had left behind. Judging from the distances traveled, Albion was immense; both the land and the world that contained it were far more expansive than anything I could have dreamed.
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#100. We would follow Arthur to the very gates of Hell and beyond if he asked it. And that is the solitary truth.
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