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The story of the Bible isn't primarily about the desire of people to be with God; it's the desire of God to be with people.
- John Ortberg
Current religiosity and ethics, especially those that replace the story of the cross with demands for social reform, have produced many a theology of glory. It still flourishes along with its attendant despair. There is no cure through the law. It will take some dying. So we are already on the way to the cross.
- Gerhard Forde
"STORY" is more than half of the word "HISTORY". And that's no accident.
- Glenn Beck
My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.
- Max Lucado
I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.
- Deborah Raney
Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.
- Peter Kreeft
This is the story of Dr. J., the mass murderer of Steinhof. How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we may even try to predict the mechanisms or dynamisms of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.
- Viktor E. Frankl
But love — don't we all talk a great deal of nonsense about it? What does one mean? ... It's only a story one makes up in one's mind about another person, and one knows all the time it isn't true. Of course one knows; why, one's always taking care not to destroy the illusion.
- Virginia Woolf
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.
- Charles Dickens
and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better. But come! I'll tell you a story of another kind.
- Charles Dickens
The devoutest person could have rendered no greater homage to the efficacy of an honest prayer than he did in this distrust of his wife. It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story.
- Charles Dickens
Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.
- Denzel Washington