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Seven Story Quotes for Story-Lovers

1. Eugene Peterson

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

— Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology

2. Flannery O’Connor

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence. — Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

3. Dan Allender

You are a story. You are not merely the possessor and teller of a number of stories; you are a well-written, intentional story that is authored by the greatest Writer of all time, and even before time and after time. — To Be Told

4. Scotty Smith & Steven Curtis Chapman

God is telling an authentic, non-spin story of selfish, broken people, who are in the process of being made new by Jesus. That’s why Jesus has the lead role in God’s Story. But He’s not the only character. He’s making us characters too. We are carriers of God’s Story – targets for hope who’ll serve as agents of hope, and candidates of mercy who’ll live as conduits of mercy. Jesus is bringing restoration to broken individuals as a means of bringing healing to other individuals, families, communities, and ultimately, to the whole universe. — Restoring Broken Things

5. Christopher J.H. Wright

. . . the whole Bible renders to us the story of God’s mission through God’s people in their engagement with God’s world for the sake of God’s whole creation. — The Mission of God

6. Rachel Remen

Real stories take time. We stopped telling stories when we started to lose that sort of time, pausing time, reflecting time, wondering time. — Kitchen Table Wisdom

7. Madeleine L’Engle

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are. — Walking on Water

And a free bonus: 

“Everyone will share the story of your wonderful goodness.” Psalm 145:7 NLT

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