Story Quotes - Page 5

If you wait, your heavenly Father will pick you up, carry you out into the night, and make your life sparkle. He wants to dazzle you with the wonder of his love.

As we wait and pray, God weaves his story and creates a wonder. Instead of drifting between comedy (denial) and tragedy (reality), we have a relationship with the living God, who is intimately involved with the details of our worlds. We are learning to watch for the story to unfold, to wait for the wonder.

The story of getting there is greater than the story of being there. Wherever your there might be.

To say that my existence is entirely inconsequential is to utterly ignore the amazing reality that life is a masterful story penned by a brilliant God who wrote me into the story in such a way that my absence would literally diminish the whole of the story.

Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the moon shining high up in the sky and my head spinning comforting from two bottles of wine, and I smiled with tears in my eyes because it was beautiful and so god damn sad and I did not know how to be one of those without the other.

No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead.

For impact, tell your true story -challenges, victory, all. Build hope by helping others find themselves by your story.

You are never too old to become younger!

No one could say the stories were useless
for as the tongue clacked
five or forty fingers stitched
corn was grated from the husk
pathwork was pieced
or the darning was done...

(from 'The Storyteller Poems')

People cannot relate to a perfectionist, there is beauty in brokenness. Your story will bring healing to others.

Our story begins at home, but it doesn’t have to end there.

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

Saved or searching, we all need to be reminded of God’s interest in us individually and His love for us personally.

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

In the absence of a story or foundation that gives hope or meaning, life has become a never-ending quest for pleasure and experience. Instead of being good, people want to feel good.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.