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Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain-they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter. With an average life expectancy of 78.2 years in the US (subtracting eight hours a day for sleep), I have around 250, 00 conscious hours remaining to me in which I could be smiling or scowling, rejoicing in my life, in this race, in this story, or moaning and complaining about my troubles. I can be giving my fingers, my back, my mind, my words, my breaths, to my wife and my children and my neighbors, or I can grasp after the vapor and the vanity for myself, dragging my feet, afraid to die and therefore afraid to live. And, like Adam, I will still die in the end.N.D. Wilson
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Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.N.D. Wilson
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We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment–narrative catechisms.N.D. Wilson
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I listened to you tell me, tell everyone, and all the world, “Praise the Lord.” You were broken, but not by bullets and bombs. You were broken by grace.N.D. Wilson
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The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.N.D. Wilson
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God's big enough that small doesn't matter.N.D. Wilson
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Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.N.D. Wilson
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Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give. Almost. It is death by living.N.D. Wilson