Quotes about Story
In spite of how we know the story unfolded, God included mankind in His conclusion that all He created was good.
- James MacDonald
We preach so that people will be better worshippers, so that the nature and story of God proclaimed will result in an amplification of what provokes glory to come down. A church's ministry extends, of course, beyond the weekend worship service, but if we fail there, nothing else can succeed. That single service in a Vertical Church is like the wood-burning furnace in a factory or warehouse.
- James MacDonald
A culture can be no stronger than its strongest myths.
- James Carse
Myths, told for their own sake, are not stories that have meanings, but stories that give meanings.
- James Carse
I say--I've thought of a good plot for a detective story. Really? Top--hole. You know, the sort that people bring out and say 'I've often thought of doing it myself, if only I could find time to sit down and write it.' I gather that sitting down is all that is necessary for producing masterpieces.
- Dorothy Sayers
All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.
- Henry David Thoreau
The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.
- Nelson Mandela
God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
- Philip Yancey
Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.
- Louie Giglio
There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.
- Andy Stanley
In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
- Philip Yancey
God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.
- Peter Kreeft