Quotes about Stories
Don't we all, at some level, want to join the outsiders? Their stories tear at our hearts and uplift our souls. The lessons they learned took the human race down unknown roads. One could do worse than to jump the track of everyday life and follow them. Deepak Chopra April 2012
- Deepak Chopra
I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.
- Philip Yancey
I get so full off of stories that people send in of encouragement.
- Lauren Daigle
As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.
- Andy Stanley
And that's one of the joys of the MCU universe... it has so many different paths and lanes and stories, and they don't shy away from neither the controversial nor the emotional.
- Kari Skogland
Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree.
- Michael Douglas
Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? The walls of their minds are scrawled all over with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.
- Randy Alcorn
To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.
- Randy Alcorn
Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.
- Randy Alcorn
It takes a long time to ruin a life. It all starts with the stories we live by.
- James Bryan Smith
Damn it, she writes detective stories and in detective stories virtue is always triumphant. They're the purest literature we have.
- Dorothy Sayers