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Top 20 Sarah Clarkson Quotes (2024 Update)

Sarah Clarkson Quote: “Life is a story, and each of us has but one tale to live as valiantly as we can.”

1. “Life is a story, and each of us has but one tale to live as valiantly as we can.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “A woman who reads is a woman who knows she must act: in courage, in creativity, in kindness, and often in defiance of the darkness around her. She understands that life itself is a story and that she has the power to shape her corner of the drama.”

2. “A woman who reads is a woman who knows she must act: in courage, in creativity, in kindness, and often in defiance of the darkness around her. She understands that life itself is a story and that she has the power to shape her corner of the drama.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “Book Girl is meant to last you beyond a first read. By theming the chapters and their accompanying lists to different seasons of experience or growth, I hope you will find this a continuing resource.”

3. “Book Girl is meant to last you beyond a first read. By theming the chapters and their accompanying lists to different seasons of experience or growth, I hope you will find this a continuing resource.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “Twelve good years thrummed in his steps, and fifteen in mine as we strode down the gypsy ribbon of a country road, laughing in the face of a fast-setting sun and swiftly rising storm.”

4. “Twelve good years thrummed in his steps, and fifteen in mine as we strode down the gypsy ribbon of a country road, laughing in the face of a fast-setting sun and swiftly rising storm.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “My parents read to us morning and night, we read novels before bedtime, we read devotions in the morning, and we read picture books or adventure tales in the afternoon.”

5. “My parents read to us morning and night, we read novels before bedtime, we read devotions in the morning, and we read picture books or adventure tales in the afternoon.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “Stories shape our existence because we recognize in a deep part of ourselves that life itself is a story. The tale of the world opens with a sort of divine “once upon a time” or “in the beginning... The gospel itself comes to us in narrative form and one of its great tenets is that we have the chance to join the story of the Kingdom come in this world, to be agents in the ongoing story of redemption, what Rowan William call the “freedom of a sort of authorship.”

6. “Stories shape our existence because we recognize in a deep part of ourselves that life itself is a story. The tale of the world opens with a sort of divine “once upon a time” or “in the beginning... The gospel itself comes to us in narrative form and one of its great tenets is that we have the chance to join the story of the Kingdom come in this world, to be agents in the ongoing story of redemption, what Rowan William call the “freedom of a sort of authorship.”

— Sarah Clarkson

Sarah Clarkson Quote: “The wonder natural to childhood is precious, something many adults spend a lifetime trying to reclaim, and as such must be preserved and maintained, especially while children are young.”

7. “The wonder natural to childhood is precious, something many adults spend a lifetime trying to reclaim, and as such must be preserved and maintained, especially while children are young.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “Reading is the road you walk to discover yourself and your world, to see with renewed vision as you encounter the vision of another.”

8. “Reading is the road you walk to discover yourself and your world, to see with renewed vision as you encounter the vision of another.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “And the story they tell us is of a world so evil, so shattered and grieved that we wonder how goodness could ever have been. In the shadow sight it sets upon us, we think of things like beauty or hope, story or song as frivolities that only distract us from the single, great reality of our grief.”

9. “And the story they tell us is of a world so evil, so shattered and grieved that we wonder how goodness could ever have been. In the shadow sight it sets upon us, we think of things like beauty or hope, story or song as frivolities that only distract us from the single, great reality of our grief.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “The food we eat, our use of the world, the justice we bring, the art we make, these are the spaces in which the potency of God’s grace shows plainly in the lives of those who love him.”

10. “The food we eat, our use of the world, the justice we bring, the art we make, these are the spaces in which the potency of God’s grace shows plainly in the lives of those who love him.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “Next to Scripture and the influence of my parents, great books have formed my worldview, developed my moral imagination and shaped my idea of virtue.”

11. “Next to Scripture and the influence of my parents, great books have formed my worldview, developed my moral imagination and shaped my idea of virtue.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “The hero tales, the epic myths, the tales of quests and dragons, knights and journeys can enter the pain and confusion of a child’s mind with a healing clarity.”

12. “The hero tales, the epic myths, the tales of quests and dragons, knights and journeys can enter the pain and confusion of a child’s mind with a healing clarity.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “Our humblest moments are the spaces in which God’s reign returns to earth, and I believe that the beauty we claim and create in response to that in-breaking life can be a radical defiance of evil. We are called to courageous creation, for the making of beauty is our gentle and holy defiance of the forces of disintegration and the powers of darkness.”

13. “Our humblest moments are the spaces in which God’s reign returns to earth, and I believe that the beauty we claim and create in response to that in-breaking life can be a radical defiance of evil. We are called to courageous creation, for the making of beauty is our gentle and holy defiance of the forces of disintegration and the powers of darkness.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “There is nothing like companionship in the reading journey, people with whom to share the delight or puzzlement or challenge of new bookish horizons.”

14. “There is nothing like companionship in the reading journey, people with whom to share the delight or puzzlement or challenge of new bookish horizons.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “We are called to faithfulness, to lives whose soil becomes the place where the stories of others are rooted. We are members one of another, and the way we deal with our sorrow and claim our hope will become the soil for the stories of our children and our spouses, our neighbors and our friends.”

15. “We are called to faithfulness, to lives whose soil becomes the place where the stories of others are rooted. We are members one of another, and the way we deal with our sorrow and claim our hope will become the soil for the stories of our children and our spouses, our neighbors and our friends.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “What we need is the healed capacity to imagine and believe the profound goodness of the future, to stand in the light of a happy ending whose power reaches into our present and draws us forward in hope.”

16. “What we need is the healed capacity to imagine and believe the profound goodness of the future, to stand in the light of a happy ending whose power reaches into our present and draws us forward in hope.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “God doesn’t offer explanation; but oh, he offers his own heartbreakingly beautiful self. God breaks into Job’s darkness by actually allowing himself to be summoned by Job’s cries for justice.”

17. “God doesn’t offer explanation; but oh, he offers his own heartbreakingly beautiful self. God breaks into Job’s darkness by actually allowing himself to be summoned by Job’s cries for justice.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “I felt like half a heretic to admit that The Lord of the Rings kept me believing in redemption or that Aslan made God real to me when I was sick of church. I felt guilty when a novel made me feel closer to God than a psalm.”

18. “I felt like half a heretic to admit that The Lord of the Rings kept me believing in redemption or that Aslan made God real to me when I was sick of church. I felt guilty when a novel made me feel closer to God than a psalm.”

— Sarah Clarkson

Sarah Clarkson Quote: “I usually turn to books first in times of distress, discouragement, or general disillusionment with life.”

19. “I usually turn to books first in times of distress, discouragement, or general disillusionment with life.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “The real risk to faith is not to wrestle...”

20. “The real risk to faith is not to wrestle...”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “We were not created for disaster nor formed for destruction, and to lament our pain is to honor the beauty God intended and yearn toward its restoration.”

21. “We were not created for disaster nor formed for destruction, and to lament our pain is to honor the beauty God intended and yearn toward its restoration.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “Make no mistake, redemption is local. Our ordinary is where the kingdom of heaven comes.”

22. “Make no mistake, redemption is local. Our ordinary is where the kingdom of heaven comes.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “To know yourself as an agent in the story of the world, one able to bring light and goodness in the midst of suffering, is a profoundly empowering knowledge, one that I believe comes to every woman who reads.”

23. “To know yourself as an agent in the story of the world, one able to bring light and goodness in the midst of suffering, is a profoundly empowering knowledge, one that I believe comes to every woman who reads.”

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Sarah Clarkson Quote: “The feel of my mother’s warmth behind me as she read is one of the first things I can remember – the safe anchor of her body and the music of her read-aloud voice the ocean on which my small consciousness sailed into power through stories of music and brave maidens, feasts and castles, family and home.”

24. “The feel of my mother’s warmth behind me as she read is one of the first things I can remember – the safe anchor of her body and the music of her read-aloud voice the ocean on which my small consciousness sailed into power through stories of music and brave maidens, feasts and castles, family and home.”

— Sarah Clarkson

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