111 Quotes by N.D. Wilson

God is a God of galaxies, of storms, of roaring seas and boiling thunder, but He is also the God of bread baking, of a child’s smile, of dust motes in the sun.

The clear water rippled gently, licking the line of fresh blue tile around its rim like a liquid puppy waiting to be played with.

If someone else was delivering your lines, would you like them? If someone else was wearing your attitude, would you be impressed?

Love burns hotter than justice, and its roar is thunder. Beside love, even wrath whispers.

You know,′ Reg said, ‘we’re going to get out. We really are. Even if we have to let fire to the ceiling.’ He glopped jam onto a white crawdad tail with a grit covered finger. ‘But we have to eat enough of this so that we get sick and die a couple days after.

Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded – under torch and hammer and chisel – into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God.

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.

Mistakes don’t just hang on the wall like ugly pictures. Mistakes are seeds.” He thumbed his chest. “In here. They grow. They take over. You make a mistake, you gotta make it right. Dig that seed out. Old Wiz used to say, ‘Fruit rots, wood rots, but lazy-ass boys rot the fastest.

Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother’s newest fridge, but a number doesn’t really describe his age.