Quotes from Jonathan Rogers

Live the life that unfolds before you- love goodness more than you fear evil.

Imagination is what convinces us that there's more to the world than meets the eye. And isn't that the first principle of faith?

I want a love like me thinking of you thinking of me thinking of you type love, or me telling my friends more than I've ever admitted to myself about how I feel about you type love

A traitor is no fit king. Live the life that unfold before you. Love goodness more than you fear evil.

Neither arms nor armor can deliver Corenwald—only the arm of the One God.

No, Aidan," he said firmly, "you don't need any new advice. You need to heed the old advice.

In our comfort, we have forgotten that virtue is hard. In our wealth, we have forgotten that freedom is expensive.

You don't want to be killed. I don't either. But wouldn't you rather die once than die every day of your life?

That's grace, man - what you're given, not what you deserve

Love goodness more than you fear evil.

That gal's got gumption, don't she?" Dobro marveled. "That gal's got what it takes.

It seems the only sin Patrick could be talking about is homicide. Perhaps in a moment of rage or carelessness, the young Patrick impulsively killed one of the slaves who worked the family's lands. He could get away with it: after all, he was the son of the lord of the manor. But as time went on—and he found himself in the position of slave, his heart changed by the love of God—the gravity of his crime dawned on him.

Live the life that unfolds before you.

Aidan laughed for the joy of the frog orchids. He cried, too, for their beauty. His melancholy was cured. And a prayer was answered that he hadn't been able to pray.

Am I a dog," he roared, "that you should come at me with a stick?

If I am defeated tomorrow, I want to die as I have lived—a shepherd boy, with the sun on my forehead and the breeze in my hair. But if I overcome, everyone must know that the One God, and not Aidan Errolson, is the Champion of Corenwald. Neither arms nor armor can deliver Corenwald—only the arm of the One God.

He was correct in saying that his academic shortcomings could be proven by the flavor of his writing. Latin experts point out errors and infelicities throughout Patrick's writings, and even in translation there are places where it is clear that Patrick's writing is a little clumsy.

For example, Patrick did not run the snakes out of Ireland. Writing two hundred years before Patrick's time, the Greek geographer Solinus remarked that Ireland was free of snakes. There is no record of Patrick using the shamrock to teach the Irish about the Trinity. Neither did he have any dealings with leprechauns

A remarkable number of the Patrick legends are comic, portraying the saint as a man you would enjoy being around. Consider, by contrast, Patrick's contemporary, Saint Augustine, with his towering intellect and moral and theological precision. You can't help respecting the man, but you wouldn't necessarily want him at your Christmas party.

looked him in the eye. He said, 'I ain't a hard man, Mr. Bear, but I ain't gonna

Courage is the will to lay aside fear because your desire to do right outweighs your desire to avoid getting hurt.

This is what constitutes an "heroic age": that a people subsisting stably on pasture and tillage, with a simple system of customary law and an already established social hierarchy, is provided with an opportunity to prey on a rich, highly organized and prestigious civilization.

But where there is no fear, there can be no courage.

bird might think he deserves to swim as well as a fish, but if he sits moping on the riverbank instead of using the wings God gave him, the fox is going to eat him. "Your brother would rather have his own way than be happy. He's thrown away the grace he was given because it's not the grace he had in mind." The Truthspeaker paused to reflect on that. "There's not much hope for a person who won't live in the grace he's given." ***