Quotes about Story

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller.

You have one chance to write the story of your life. Make it a bestseller.

So what is a worldview? Essentially this: 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) that we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundation on which we live and move and have our being.

What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe.

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.

Even among those who have no special allegiance to a particular branch of Christianity, there are plenty of seekers as well as agnostics and atheists who harbor a certain curiosity about Jesus and his story.