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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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? -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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It had long been an ambition to find the line of force that might lead to the Holy Land in the time of Christ. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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? -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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! -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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To friends! Life belongs to those who love, and where love reigns is man truly king! -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Alea iacta est. The die has been cast. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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God has always worked through the small, the insignificant, the powerless - it seems to be sewn into the very fabric of the universe. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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The human race seems to love nothing more than a long detour. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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I desperately wanted a chance to prove myself. Not because I cared a fart for druids. No. I had instead conceived a new plan for escape. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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In truth I had forgotten all about Arthur and our reason for coming to Benowyc in the first place. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Bitter the day of birth, for death is its companion. Yet, though life be cold and cruel, we are not without a last consolation. For to die in one world is to be born into another. Let all men hear and remember! -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Only a fool demands proof of what he already knows. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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And the Wise Emrys said that Arthur would yet come again to lead his own. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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We would follow Arthur to the very gates of Hell and beyond if he asked it. And that is the solitary truth. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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A man can learn much, but learning is not knowledge. The only true source of infallible certainity is divine illumination. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Life is a school of the spirit. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Arthur was simply there in their midst, the sword in his hand. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Whatever is done cannot be undone, but whatever is lost can sometimes be found. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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I took him by the arm to steady him. He opened his eyes slowly, the bright golden gleam now darkened with pain and sorrow. "Morgian!' he uttered, his voice strangled with grief. "It was Morgian ... -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Shape our reality through the exercise of intention, through the application of our free will as conscious beings. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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May you always have ale enough to wet your tongues, wit enough to know friend from foe, and strength enough for every fight. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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 -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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In short, you have all the social prospects of a garden gnome. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Call me Silidons, for such I am. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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 -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Kingship wrought of Infinite worship,
Quick-forged by the Swift Sure Hand;
Bold in Righteousness,
Valiant in Justice,
A sword of honor to defend the clans of Albion! -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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? -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Alas, words were but empty things, devoid of power and all too easily broken, discarded, and forgotten. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened.
- Friar Tuck -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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I may speak freely, my lord," began Tuck. "I doubt anything in heaven or earth could prevent you," remarked Bran. "Speak, priest. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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You worry too much, Tuck." "And you not enough, Rhi Bran. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Time is short and life fleeting and that nothing matters except that which is eternal. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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People did not go jumping from one place to another with nothing in between. It simply did not happen. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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When iniquity sits in the judgement seat, good men must take their appeals to a higher court. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Do not borrow tomorrow's troubles today -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Humility, if it comes at all, almost always comes too late. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Pray God our aim is true and each arrow finds it's mark. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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I will write: for myself, for those who come after, and for the voices that cry out not to be forgotten. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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For the scholar no effort is ever wasted. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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 -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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To behold Queen Gwenhwyvar and the Lady of the Lake together was to peer too long into the sun's brilliant dazzle, to feel the heart lurch in the breast for yearning, to have the words stolen from the tongue before the lips could speak them. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Life is a school of the spirit, Aidan," Ruadh intoned with gentle insistence. "Learning is our soul's requirement, and -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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You see, this universe we inhabit is made up of billions of galaxies literally beyond counting and this is only one universe. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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She walked along beneath a sky of bird's-egg blue, -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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All he had, in fact, was Merlin's shining promise. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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You should not mock what lies beyond your grasp." He -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Fear arises from uncertainty. Where there is perfect certainty, there is no fear. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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He holds the sword!' shouted Merlin. 'And that has not changed. Whoever would be king must first take the sword from Arthur's hand. For I tell you truly, none among you will be king without it! -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Talent without discipline is only an empty promise - the glitter of an unworked crystal. It is nothing of itself. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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It was Arthur's welcome alone, I believe, which turned the tide of misery for Merlin. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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 -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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None of us ever knows what impact we have on the world around us. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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, -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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The long and painstakingly detailed discussions seemed to me nothing more than the incessant nattering of toads in a water filled ditch and of no greater consequence. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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What makes you so certain?"
"But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?"
"Yes!"
"Then you want death. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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! -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand? -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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If ever I boast of seeing a fairer face in all this wide world, may I die a liar's death. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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And, Lord, does it have to be so blasted hot? -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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It does not matter where one starts; it is where one finishes that makes all the difference. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Streams of consequence flow from every action, and from every conflict there are two paths by which events may go. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Derision is the refuge of threatened ignorance, after all. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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as is most always the case with any disaster, it is those who can least afford to lose who lose the most. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Words are worth little when the heart refuses to hear. Therefore, judge us by our works. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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I saw Byzantium in a dream and knew that I would die there.. and the golden towers of Byzantium would be my tomb ~ Aidan -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Truth, they say, is a cold and bitter draught; few drink it undiluted. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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It does not do to hurry the archer, it makes him miss. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Knowledge is a burden
once taken up, it can never be discarded. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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The path is revealed in the treading. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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 ... -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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 -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Justice ought sometimes to protect those least able to protect themselves. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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The only true source of infallible certainty is divine illumination. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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He sighed and shook his head slowly. 'And there will be no bringing back the light once it has gone. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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I will weep no more for the lost, asleep in their water graves. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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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? -- Stephen R. Lawhead
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Anyone who tells you he knows the mind of God is selling something. You can take that to the bank. -- Stephen R. Lawhead