Grail Quotes

“We are not required to defeat evil, but only to stand against it. That is enough - the outcome remains with God.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Grail

“Power as I possess is not, as many believe, given in exchange for a soul. To hear the ignorant speak, one would think it is merely a simple bargain, an exchange of vows, perhaps, and the power one seeks simply flows from the fingertips for the asking. But no, it is not so easy as that! The truly great gifts are not gifts at all, but treasures obtained after long and difficult searching, prizes won only through hard-fought victories over relentless, near-invincible adversaries. [...]
The ignorant speak of hidden arts, but they are not hidden. Indeed, there is nothing secret about them at all; they are freely open and available to any who would pursue them. Ah, but the price! The price is nothing less than the devotion of an entire life. So perhaps the simple-minded are right, after all, in thinking of the acquisition of power as a pact in which the soul is bartered. There is no other way.
- Morgian”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Grail

“Be the cloak of Michael Militant about me, Be the cloak of the Archangel over me, Christ’s cloak, Blessed Saviour, safeguarding me, God’s cloak of grace and strength, shielding me! To guard me at my back, To preserve me from the front, And from the crown of my head to the heel of my foot! The cloak of Heaven’s High King between me and all things that wish me ill, and all things that wish me harm, and all things coming darkly towards me!”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Grail

“time is not the passage of an endless succession of moments, but the distance between events.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Grail

“I did not pray – that is, I said no words aloud – but allowed my mind to drift along on the deep-flowing current of peace. If I had any thought at all, it was merely to bathe myself for a while in the calm of all calms, and perhaps touch for a moment the source of all serenity. Perhaps this is prayer by a different name; I do not know. Neither can I say how long I remained like this; time was swallowed in eternity, I think, for it seemed to me that I had inhabited the shrine for a lifetime of lifetimes – in all that time knowing nothing of earthly strife and clamour, knowing nothing of desire or striving, knowing nothing but blissful contentment, and the desire that I might abide like this forever. To stay just as I am, I thought, would be joy surpassing all pleasures. I held that thought in my mind, clung to it, and, clinging, cried out in my heart of hearts: Great King, cast me not aside! The cry arose unbidden, but I knew it as my own, for I had uttered my deepest fear.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Grail

“Only that which endures beyond time is worth having.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Grail