Quotes about Storytelling

What makes us most human is the possession of a unique and irreproducible story, that we take place over time and leave behind our traces.

The world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully. But also that by telling the story of the world, we are changing the world. That is why God created the letters of the alphabet, that we might have the opportunity to narrate to him what he created. Reb Mordke always chuckled at this. "God is blind. Did you not know that?" he would say. "He created us that we would be his guides, his five senses.

That the world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully.

The deep logic of God's truth can be expressed in both stories and arguments, by questions as well as statements, through reason and the imagination, through the four Gospels as well as through the book of Romans.

The Bible looks the way it does because "God lets his children tell the story," so to speak.

Over the years I've grown more and more convinced that "storytelling" is a better way of understanding what the Bible is doing with the past than "history writing.

How do biblical writers talk about the past?

that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children

Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.

While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, He told them this parable:

But Peter began and explained to them the whole sequence of events: