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Stephen R. Lawhead, born (1950-07-02) 2 July 1950 (age 67), is a UK–based American writer known for his works of fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction, particularly Celtic historical fiction. He has written over 28 novels and numerous children's and non-fiction books.

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I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful of pond water beside the vast ocean of longing I felt surging through me. My head swam; my eyes blurred. I burned from the inside out as if my blood and bones were consumed with liquid fire.

Eye, Fire, Ocean, Surging, Vast

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

Friar, Impossible, Possibility, Think, Thinking, Tuck

It had long been an ambition to find the line of force that might lead to the Holy Land in the time of Christ.

Ambition, Land, Line, Long

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.

Church, Churches, Early, Force, Men, Old Things

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.

Age, Energy, Field, Hundreds, Lines, Telluric

Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance.

Confidence, Enjoy, Great Confidence, Ignorance, Unbelief

When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand?

Battle, Heaven, Joins, Stand

Life is a school of the spirit.

Life, Life Is, School, Spirit

Do not borrow tomorrow's troubles today

Borrow, Today, Tomorrow, Trouble, Troubles

Words are worth little when the heart refuses to hear. Therefore, judge us by our works.

Hear, Heart, Judging, Littles, Words, Worth

To friends! Life belongs to those who love, and where love reigns is man truly king!

Friends, Kings, Man, Men, Reign, Reigns

Three things cannot be called back: the arrow when it speeds from the bow, the milk when the churn is upturned, the word when it leaps from the tongue.

Arrows, Bow, Milk, Three, Tongue

Arthur, with his keen blue eyes and hair of burnished gold, his ready smile and guileless countenance. Wide and heavy of shoulder, long of limb, he towers above other men and, though he does not yet know the power of his stature, he is aware that smaller men become uneasy near him. He is handsomely knit in all; fair to look upon.

Blue, Eye, Guileless, Hair, Men, Ready

We are closest to Christ when sharing the world’s misery. Think you Jesus came to remove our pains? Wherever did you get that notion? The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond. We can overcome our travails. That is the promise of the cross.

Jesus, Misery, Overcome, Pain, Thinking, Wherever

True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry, the son of investigation, Investigation, the son of knowledge, Knowledge, the son of understanding, Understanding, the son of wisdom, Wisdom, the son of surrender to the Divine Will Thus it is with the poet himself: his art is powerful, protecting, elevating, and his judgement straight and strong

Art, Powerful, Scrutiny, Son, Strong, True

Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways.

Central, Existence, Mystery, Time, Way

I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.

Blessing, Force, High, Kings, Taken, Trust

Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded.

Burden, Discarded, Knowledge, Taken

The path is revealed in the treading.

Path, Revealed, Treading

Death wears many faces, but it’s stench is always the same.

Death, Faces, Many Faces, Same, Stench

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