Quotes about Stories

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.

I get so full off of stories that people send in of encouragement.

As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

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.

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

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.

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.

It takes a long time to ruin a life. It all starts with the stories we live by.

Damn it, she writes detective stories and in detective stories virtue is always triumphant. They're the purest literature we have.

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.