Quotes about Narrative

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.

we need to learn to tell the story that makes sense of Jesus. Not a story that we ask Jesus to fit into.

But humans want to usurp the place of God, making themselves the center of the Story.

as life is a story, so also is spiritual formation a story—a journey from earth to heaven.

That is, until we find the story that leads us to the gospel claim that Jesus is the Messiah, we don't have the Bible's story right.

It is impossible for us to indwell this Story and not assume that narrative's perspective. Again, that perspective is God's perspective. It is not our perspective; it is God's perspective. It is God's perspective on us, not our perspective on others.

Until we learn to read the Bible as Story, we will not know how to get anything out of the Bible for daily living.

It is impossible for us to indwell this Story and not assume that narrative's perspective. Again, that perspective is God's perspective. It is not our perspective; it is God's perspective. It is God's perspective on us, not our perspective on others. Bible readers, especially pastors (and commenters on blogs), inevitably begin to think like God about ourselves and others.

No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.

There's no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy.