Frases de Stephen R. Lawhead página 2

“Este mundo está lleno de penurias, Dios lo sabe y no ahorra ninguna a sus propios sirvientes.”

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“Dejaste de ser un príncipe cuando abandonaste a tu gente.”

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“Las palabras que tengo que deciros son más amargas que la ceniza.
Entonces ¡escúpelas ya! No serán más dulces por no pronunciarlas.”

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“Soy lo que quieras ver. Cada persona ve algo diferente. ¿Qué es lo que ves tú?”

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“Mejor morir en la batalla que vivir como un cobarde.”

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“El respeto es un tesoro valioso que no cuesta nada. Si pudieras contener tu lengua, verías que puedes aprender a ser cortés.”

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Stephen R. Lawhead Frases y Citas

“Bajo, quizá. Humillado, quizá. Incluso devastado. Pero no destruido. Y nunca, nunca, acabado.”

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“Cuando el cielo se une a una batalla en tu contra, ¿quién puede resistirlo?”

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“Déjalo. Si eso es lo que verdaderamente siente, nada de lo que le digamos le va a hacer cambiar de opinión, y cabezota como es, nos iba a seguir de cualquier modo.”

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“El agua es el elixir de la vida. Nunca me canso de beberla.”

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“… la justicia debería proteger alguna vez a aquellos menos capaces de protegerse a sí mismos. ¿O ha cambiado eso?”

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“You see, this universe we inhabit is made up of billions of galaxies—literally beyond counting—and this is only one universe.”

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Stephen R. Lawhead: Frases en inglés

“You’re changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.”

Fuente: The Skin Map (2010), p. 20

“We in our present generation stand on the cusp of a new and glorious dawn when mastery of these energies lies fully within our grasp as secret yields to inquiry, which yields to experimentation, which leads to verification and duplication, which, in the final course, leads to knowledge.”

Fuente: The Skin Map (2010), p. 65

“Even well-known words were often pronounced differently and could have unfamiliar meanings; connotations were not fixed, but fluid. Definitions drifted. He was constantly brought up short by the sudden realization that what he thought he had said was not at all what he meant—at least as it had been understood by his hearers. Still, he was coming to grips with the slippery speech, and his confidence was growing.”

Fuente: The Skin Map (2010), p. 58

“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.”

Fuente: The Skin Map (2010), p. 212

“The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.”

Fuente: The Skin Map (2010), p. 20

“Little Archie’s story is darker, more desperate, and yet drearily familiar.”

Fuente: The Bone House (2011), p. 163

“The great hulking eminence of the stone-age mound stood out as an ominous dark shadow.”

Fuente: The Bone House (2011), p. 115

“When next you turn your eyes to the vast reaches of heaven, gentlemen, you would be well advised to remember that not only is it far more magnificent than the human mind can fathom, it is far more subtle. All the universe is permeated, upheld, knit together, conjoined, encompassed, and contained by the Elemental Ether, which we recognise as an all-pervading, responsive, and intelligent field of energy, eternal and inexhaustible, which is nothing less than the ground of our very being and the wellspring of our existence—that which in ages past and present men have been pleased to call God.”

Fuente: The Bone House (2011), p. 162

“He was a stranger in a strange land: lost in the cosmos, a man with neither compass nor guide, sitting in a tomb in Egypt surrounded by the dead, with Giles—a man his own age, but separated by class and sensibility and four hundred years—looking to him for answers.”

Fuente: The Skin Map (2010), p. 59

“These dimensions impinge on one another. They touch. They interpenetrate. And where one dimension touches or passes through another, it forms a line of force on the landscape.”

Fuente: The Skin Map (2010), p. 411

“None of us ever knows what impact we have on the world around us.”

Fuente: The Skin Map (2010), p. 22

“But isn’t that hazardous—messing with events?”

Fuente: The Bone House (2011), p. 183

“See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided—why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.”

Fuente: The Skin Map (2010), p. 65

“Certainty sent a sick dread snaking through his gut: he was being stalked.”

Fuente: The Skin Map (2010), p. 65

“A favourite saying in China—which she had heard on occasion from her own grandmother—was that the threads of life are easy to weave, but difficult to untangle.”

Fuente: The Bone House (2011), p. 304