Quotes About Story

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense of the world. Characters, situations, moral consequences are all around us.

God invites us today to live a great story with Him.

I don't see how anybody can read the Bible and believe it's the word of God, or believe that it is anything but a barbarous story of a barbarous people.

Why can't God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It's the same reason the comic book character can't get rid of his nemesis; then there's no story.

Exactly as we might ask God, and do ask God, to change our fate. The difference is that in the story the writer actually replies and in the end even changes his mind.

In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing.

We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

What I like best is a good story with a moral.

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.