Quotes from N.D. Wilson

Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."

It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.

But God never seems capable of moderation

Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.

Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others.

Spring is worth the wait. Life is worth the death.

Here Spring just grows and greens and warms, spreading life, wrapping us in her arms, until suddenly we realize that she's not a girl anymore. She's a woman. A woman named Summer.

The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.

What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.

The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.

Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side.