Quotes About Story

The choice you make between hating and forgiving can be the story of your life

Courage, kindness and a great determination to succeed in life with a smile were hallmarks of my wonderful wife. And why her story deserves to be told.

All life is bound to a simple truth... that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend.

The story of grace is the Gospel of not just forgiveness, but also of redemption. God uses the weak, the ones who have failed and the ones who had run out of second chances long ago.

Make sure you test your brand story's recipe with whomever you're cooking it for.

Brand and product don't compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you.

People who benefit from writing express more optimism, acknowledge negative events, are constructing a meaningful story of their experience, and have the ability to change perspectives as they write.

A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) which we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundations on which we live and more and have our being.

Evangelism is not mere initiation into a relationship with God but the formation of a community within a narrative that is not yet complete.

Baptism, the Lord's Supper, and singing celebrate the story that created the community and continues to unite it. Although one may not dismiss the evangelistic dimension of worship or the effect of worship on the outsider, the primary challenge of worship is to contribute to the transformation of the entire community.

There is this strangeness of a life story having no shape—or more accurately, nothing but its present—until it has its ending; and then suddenly the whole trajectory is visible.

Although the Bible is a library of books, it is also "the book." It is a story, a grand story, of God's love for His people, and the price He was willing to pay to restore us into perfect fellowship with Him.

There are People that can translocate mountains, But There are also People that can make from a Little thing a story So big as a Mountain in Words to take the Happiness from others away, because of jealousy.

We decided he might like to know about the people and places that belong to him now so he can begin a story all his own.

There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.

A story and an arrow must be straight, and the words and a bow bent to them.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

Some of what I remembered was not my own story. It was twisted like tobacco strands, tangled with a dozen other memories of people who were here and others who were not even a part of the terror.

When Mantle faced the cameras for the last time a month before his death, he was a husk of a man, shrunken by cancer. The stiff brim of his 1995 All-Star Game cap dwarfed his brow. There was no Mantle Roll. He looked straight into the cameras and told us all, 'Don't be like me.' The transformation of The Mick parallels the transformation of American culture from willful innocence to knowing cynicism. To tell his story is to tell ours.

There was something magical about listening to a story unfold in which the characters coexisted harmoniously in a peaceful haven while being enveloped in the comfort and security of maternal devotion.

Mother Land provides evidence that growth in self-understanding can be achieved at a late stage of life -- Theroux is in his seventies -- evidence that the story is not over yet and that new insight and change can take place until the end.

You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be something specific enough that I can use my wand to make it happen. Oh, and recently there's been a ban on inserting yourself into the Twilight series. The Cullens are tired of different teenage girls pinging into their story every time they turn around.

Sure," I say. "But I don't have much to tell. Do you want

I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.