Quotes about Design

Good stories don't happen by accident, I learned. They are planned.

Branding concerns itself with fonts and colors and design.

Keep the Plan Visually Simple

Inevitably, whoever designs our website is more concerned with colors, images, and "feel" than they are with the words we are using.

The rule exists in story because it's a true thing about people. Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

This alleged mystery, though, is a knot that we can untie with the Bible in our hands. We can acknowledge that man has all the marks of a majestic temple about him — a temple in which God once dwelt but which is now in utter ruins, a temple in which a shattered window here and a doorway and a column there still give some faint idea of the magnificence of the original design — but a temple which from end to end has lost its glory and has fallen from its once lofty position.

When sin entered the world, it broke the goodness of God's design. And sin absolutely breaks God's heart. But in no way did sin affect the goodness of God. He has a plan, a good plan to rid this world of every effect of sin.

God sees within me the ability to be the one He's perfectly designed to raise up this strong little person.

Despite what many modern educators would say, this is not a psychological disturbance brought on by violent television or chemical imbalance. Aggression is part of the masculine design; we are hardwired for it.

Our lives are not a random series of events; they tell a Story that has meaning.

As C. S. Lewis wrote, "A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on himself. He himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other." This is where our sin and our culture have come together to keep us in bondage and brokenness, to prevent the healing of our wounds.

Given the way creation unfolds, how it builds to ever higher and higher works of art, can there be any doubt that Eve is the crown of creation?