Quotes about Telling
The woman ran quickly to tell her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has reappeared!”
- Judges 13:10
because John had been telling him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”
- Matthew 14:4
She went and told those who had been with Him, who were mourning and weeping.
- Mark 16:10
Since Judas kept the money bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the feast, or to give something to the poor.
- John 13:29
A veil removed, bringing freedom, transformation, glory. Do you see it? I am not making this up—though I have been accused of making the gospel better than it is. The charge is laughable. Could anyone be more generous than God? Could any of us come up with a story that beats the one God has come up with? All the stories that we tell borrow their power from the Great Story he is telling.
- John Eldredge
We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.
- St. Basil
It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing reviews of famous novels.
- Virginia Woolf
I'm goin to tell you right now, cousin. This is a heathenish bunch.
- Cormac McCarthy
It (the talking, the telling) seemed (to him, to Quentin) to partake of that logic- and reason-flouting quality of a dream which the sleeper knows must have occurred, stillborn and complete, in a second, yet the very quality upon which it must depend to move the dreamer (verisimilitude) to credulity _horror or pleasure or amazement_ depends as completely upon a formal recognition of and acceptance of elapsed and yet-elapsing time as music or a printed tale.
- William Faulkner
It is the responsibility of men and women of God to tell the truth.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
Any planning in a bottle is short, thought Stamp, but he knew from personal experience the pointlessness of telling a drinking man not to.
- Toni Morrison
If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.
- Frederick Buechner