Ben Hur: Una Storia Di Cristo
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) was the most popular American novel of the nineteenth century, a staggering success that topped even Mark Twain's works and remained in print for decades. Lew Wallace crafted an epic of revenge and redemption set in the Roman-ruled world of Jesus. The story follows Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince betrayed by his childhood friend Messala and condemned to slavery on a Roman galley, where he must endure years of suffering before rising to become a champion charioteer. But this is no mere adventure tale. As Judah hunts his former friend through the arenas of Rome, the shadow of an obscure carpenter's son moves through the margins of the narrative. When their paths finally converge, the novel asks a radical question: can a man consumed by vengeance find peace? The answer comes not through conquest but through the radical mercy Judah witnesses in Jerusalem. It is simultaneously a ripping historical adventure and a spiritual meditation on forgiveness.
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“Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.””
— Lew Wallace
“The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.””
— Lew Wallace
“The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further.””
— Lew Wallace
“It is more beautiful to trust in God. The beautiful in this world is all from his hand, declaring the perfection of taste; he is the author of all form; he clothes the lily, he colours the rose, he distils the dewdrop, he makes the music of nature; in a word, he organized us for this life, and imposed its conditions; and they are such guaranty to me that, trustful as a little child, I leave to him the organization of my Soul, and every arrangement for the life after death. I know he loves me.””
— Lew Wallace
“Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.””
— Lew Wallace
“What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.””
— Lew Wallace
“Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.””
— Lew Wallace
“To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.””
— Lew Wallace
“Knowledge leaves no room for chances.””
— Lew Wallace
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