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  • If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

  • Death wears many faces, but it’s stench is always the same.

  • 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.

    Men  
  • 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.

  • What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.

  • 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.

    Eye   Warrior   Men  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Eye  
  • 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

  • When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand?

  • Yet, there was once a king worthy of that name. That king was Arthur. It is paramount disgrace of this evil generation that the name of that great king is no longer spoken aloud except in derision. Arthur! He was the fairest flower of our race, Cymry's most noble son, Lord of the Summer Realm, Pendragon of Britain. He wore God's favour like a purple robe. Hear then, if you will, the tale of a true king.

    Summer   Flower  
  • 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.

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

  • Life is a school of the spirit.

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

  • Arthur, with his keen blue eyes and hair of burnished gold, his ready smile and guileless countenance. Wide and heavy of shoulder, long of limb, he towers above other men and, though he does not yet know the power of his stature, he is aware that smaller men become uneasy near him. He is handsomely knit in all; fair to look upon.

    Eye   Men   Hair  
  • 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.

  • Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.

    "Fictional character: Dieter Wieland". "The Wave", www.imdb.com. 2008.
  • 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.

  • Call me Silidons, for such I am.

    Stephen R. Lawhead (2011). “King Raven: 3-in-1 of Hood, Scarlet, and Tuck”, p.484, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • The Queen of Air and Darkness tilted back her head and laughed. A more ghastly sound I hope never to hear. ‘Do you think I care about these trifles?’ ‘Murder is no trifle, woman,’ Arthur said. ‘No? How many men have you killed, Great King? How many have you slain without cause? How many did you cut down that you might have spared? How many died because you in your battle-rage would not heed their pleas for mercy?’ The High King opened his mouth to speak, but could make no answer.

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

    Stephen R. Lawhead (2013). “The Bone House: A Bright Empires Novel, Book 2”, p.159, Lion Fiction
  • To friends! Life belongs to those who love, and where love reigns is man truly king!

    Men  
  • Humility, if it comes at all, almost always comes too late.

  • 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.

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

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

    Stephen R. Lawhead (2013). “The Bone House: A Bright Empires Novel, Book 2”, p.163, Lion Fiction
  • People did not go jumping from one place to another with nothing in between. It simply did not happen.

    "The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.
  • Words are worth little when the heart refuses to hear. Therefore, judge us by our works.

  • Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.

    Stephen R. Lawhead (2013). “The Bone House: A Bright Empires Novel, Book 2”, p.191, Lion Fiction
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