Stephen R. Lawhead Quotes

The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond.

I raised my spear to heaven. 'For God and Britain!' I cried, and my cry was answered in kind. And then I was racing down the hillside, my cloak rippling out behind me, the wind singing from my dark-glinting spearhead.

See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided—why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.

We are not required to defeat evil, but only to stand against it. That is enough - the outcome remains with God.

Las palabras que tengo que deciros son más amargas que la ceniza.
Entonces ¡escúpelas ya! No serán más dulces por no pronunciarlas.

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.

Once again he felt the now-familiar tingle on his skin, as when, just before a lightning strike, the air becomes electrically charged.

The spell is Morgians

...tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a crown for your head; I will speak the flowers of the field into a cloak; I will speak the racing stream into a melody for your ears and the voices of a thousand larks to sing it; I will speak the softness of night for your bed and the warmth of summer for your coverlet; I will speak the brightness of flame to light your way and the luster of gold to shine in your smile; I will speak until the hardness in you melts away and your heart is free...

Streams of consequence flow from every action, and from every conflict there are two paths by which events may go.

Arthur was simply there in their midst, the sword in his hand.

Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened.
- Friar Tuck