Quotes about Story

The] Christ story is one of the best stories that man has invented. . . . Faulkner in the University, 117

The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

It's purely and simply the unfair media.They want the story to stay alive as long as possible.

Unless you read it quickly you will fail to see the unity of the story. Unless you read intensely you will fail to see the details.

First and foremost, God is the true hero of the story. No matter how captivating the other characters may be, our top priority is to discover what the Bible reveals about God.

When we consider these simple facts, we see how absolutely futile are the attempts that have been made to draw a parallel between the story told by so much of the crust of the earth as is known to us and the story which Milton tells.

I had begun to comprehend that the Bible's story is about the relationship of God to human beings, and of human beings to one another, and that this meant that it is our friendships, marriages, families, and even church congregations that best reveal what kind of theology we have, who our God is. Or, as Thomas Merton once put it, "because we love, God is present." That is the story.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

I think you'll see that my life story is worthy of a novel, because of my sins more than my virtues.

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.