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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
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“My idea is that Miss Vane didn't do it," said Wimsey. "I dare say that's an idea which has already occurred to you, but with the weight of my great mind behind it, no doubt it strikes the imagination more forcibly.”
― Strong Poison
― Strong Poison
“No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that will is.”
― Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
― Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
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