116 quotes found
“In church, the rules of the lifeboat don't apply. Church is the refuge where the Kingdom of God is emulated, not mocked.”
“I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or ...”
“When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration.”
“The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.”
“The root systems of these lies we tell ourselves tend to grow together. Its all connected with the belief human love is conditional. But human love isnt conditional. No love is conditional. If love...”
“What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?”
“The reward you get from a story is always less than you thought it would be, and the work is harder than you imagined. The point of a story is never about the ending, remember. It's about your char...”
“Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she want...”
“God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.”
“He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for hi...”
“I never thought to ascribe my mother's emotional and physical exhaustion to the lack of a husband and father; rather, I ascribed it to my existence. In other words, I grew up learning the exact opp...”
“Dwight Eisenhower said that from the beginning, his mother and father operated on an assumption that set the course of his life - that the world could be fixed of its problems if every child unders...”
“(The monks) approach was far less narcissistic and our tends to be. Their goal when reading Scripture was to see Christ in every verse, and not a mirror image of themselves.”
“Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells.”
“You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the character...”
“It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like...”
“All our time spent making lists would be better spent painting, or writing, Or singing, or learning to speak stories. Sometimes I feel as though the Church has a kind of pity for Scripture, Always ...”
“Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.”
“We were made to be distracted by life, by story.”
“Perhaps one of the reasons I've avoided standing on the point toward the horizon is the second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose.”
