N.D. Wilson, Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
7 quotes
"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."
"We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms."
"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."
"The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue."
"God's big enough that small doesn't matter."
"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."
"Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.Almost.It is death by living."