E.B. Roshan > E.B.'s Quotes

“The only heroes in this world are the ones who refuse to compromise – who refuse to do the evil things that the rest of the world tells them are necessary. As soon as we began to compromise, to justify it, we ceased to be anything of the sort.”
― Miranda Marie

“The Enemy's human partisans have all been plainly told by Him that suffering is an essential part of what He calls Redemption; so that a faith which is destroyed by a war or a pestilence cannot really have been worth the trouble of destroying.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”
― C.S. Lewis

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The Resolution is not just the ending of this story, but also the beginning of the story the characters will live in after readers have closed the back cover.”
― K.M. Weiland, Structuring Your Novel: Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story

“I make decrees over my family every day. I speak blessings over my family every day. I declare things from God’s word over my family every day. Things like,… … As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. (Joshua 24:15) No weapon formed against us shall prosper…. (Isaiah 54:17) He has given His angels charge over us… (Psalms 91:11) Angels listen for God’s word to perform it. And they do. The Bible says Thou shalt also decree a thing and it shall be established unto thee, and light shall shine upon thy ways. (Job 22:28) There is power in your decree and in your agreement with this word of the Lord. If you decree on the authority of the Word that your eyes will open and see clearly, it will come to pass. The Lord is not a man that He should lie, nor the son of man that He should repent. If He said it, will He not do it? (Numbers 23:19)”
― Michael R. Van Vlymen, How To See In The Spirit: A Practical Guide On Engaging The Spirit Realm

“I have never accused Hector Ardmore of having more brain matter than is strictly necessary for vital functions.”
― E.B. Roshan, Orchidelirium

“The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions.

Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that's already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what--these are the thousand and one adulterants that weaken the strength of a sentence. And they usually occur in proportion to education and rank,”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Not to obey God implies that we are wiser than him, and that we know better how to run our lives than he does.”
― Brother Yun, The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun by Yun, Brother, Hattaway, Paul(September 1, 2008) Audio CD

“If you could know—if you could always know—when the lasts in life are coming, you’d handle them differently. You’d savor. You’d stop. You’d let nothing else invade the moment.”
― Lisa Wingate, The Sea Keeper's Daughters

“With the practice of intentional gratitude, there is no time for regrets about the past, or worries about the future. There is only thankfulness for the here and now.”
― Terri Blackstock, If I'm Found