Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.
The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.
The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God’s creative genius is endless.
When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God’s. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.
God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
That’s why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they’re blue in the face and not get it.
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.
Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all – Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.
Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.
The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.