Stephen R. Lawhead citations

“You spend too much time alone, too much time watching television, and too little time cultivating the inner man. You live in a squalid little flat in what is referred to as a no-go zone from which your friends, of whom you see less and less, have all fled for the suburbs long ago with wives and sprogs in tow. You are exceedingly unlucky in love, having invested years in a romantic relationship which, as you know only too well, is neither romantic nor much of a relationship. In short, you have all the social prospects of a garden gnome.”

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

“If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.”

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

“Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart”

“Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend.”

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

“Humility, if it comes at all, almost always comes too late.”

“What makes you so certain?"
"But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?"
"Yes!"
"Then you want death.”

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

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

“I’ve moved heaven and earth to find you.”

“People did not go jumping from one place to another with nothing in between. It simply did not happen.”

“If the heat doesn’t kill you,” he mused, “the flies surely will.”

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

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

“His last thought, as sleep overtook him, was that it was true what Cosimo had said: the universe was far stranger than anyone imagined, or could imagine.”

“Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.”

“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.”

“London had vanished. In place of the lively, thrusting metropolitan conurbation was an empty rural wilderness of damp brown fields under low autumnal skies.”

“Here’s to dodgy adventures with disreputable relatives!”

“You really don’t want to get lost.”

“How very bright this empire of stars, he mused. Which poet had said that?”

“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.”

“Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.”

“If her hunch was right, the earl’s explorations were connected in some way to ley travel: that peculiar phenomenon that had plucked her from the twenty-first century and dropped her so rudely into the seventeenth.”

“Before Egypt, long before travelling to that time and place—or any other—became even a remote possibility, Mina had paid her dues. Haltingly, painstakingly, maddeningly.”

“The very idea of a near-infinite array of universes made his head swim.”

“Getting lost is the least of your worries.”