Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck Stephen R. Lawhead More Quotes by Stephen R. Lawhead More Quotes From Stephen R. Lawhead I will weep no more for the lost, asleep in their water graves. Stephen R. Lawhead graves lost water 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 understanding evil world 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 age heaven hands Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend. Stephen R. Lawhead truth-is delight constant Life is a school of the spirit. Stephen R. Lawhead spirit life-is school We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the fervor I possessed. A lifetime of vows and heart-felt disciplines had prepared me well, for in that kiss I sealed with all my soul the fate before me, embracing a mystery clothed in warm and yielding female flesh. Holding only the moment, with neither thought nor care for the future, I kissed her, and drank deep the strong wine of desire. Stephen R. Lawhead passion strong heart When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand? Stephen R. Lawhead battle heaven She [Mérian] shook her head sadly. 'What Bran wants is impossible.' 'Well,' I [Will] said, 'I wouldn't be too sure. I have seen the lone canny fox outwit the hunter often enough to know that it matters little how many horses and men you have. All the wealth and weapons in the world will not catch the fox that refuses to be caught. Stephen R. Lawhead hunters horse men Death wears many faces, but it’s stench is always the same. Stephen R. Lawhead many-faces faces The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them. Stephen R. Lawhead mist lightning air 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 lines energy age 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 old-things church men 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 billions counting made Alea iacta est. The die has been cast. Stephen R. Lawhead casts has-beens latin People did not go jumping from one place to another with nothing in between. It simply did not happen. Stephen R. Lawhead jumping happens people 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 volcanoes ice war 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 land ambition long Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life. Stephen R. Lawhead unhappy happy-life thinking None of us ever knows what impact we have on the world around us. Stephen R. Lawhead impact knows world 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 stars winter wind
