116 quotes found
“I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.”
“The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.”
“I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.”
“We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.”
“...I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves a beautiful feeling even as the credits roll.”
“The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.”
“But love doesnt control, and I suppose thats why its the ultimate risk. In the end, we have to hope the person were giving our heart to wont break it, and be willing to forgive them when they do, e...”
“Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.”
“The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.”
“If you think about it, we get robbed of the mystery of being alive. I think we get robbed of the glory of it because we don't remember how we got here. When you get born, you wake up slowly to ever...”
“When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. Hes like Bill Clinton in ...”
“The problem is this: those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless were perfect.”
“I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility.”
“...the words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language...those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are ...”
“What if part of God's message to the world was you, the true and real you?”
“If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the ...”
“..[My friend Marco said]. essentially, humans are alive for the purpose of journey, a kind of three-act structure. They are born and spend several years discovering themselves and the world, then p...”
“People assume when you're swimming in a river you are supposed to know which way you are going, and I guess some of the time that is true, but there are certain currents that are very strong, and i...”
“When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.”
“Life no longer felt meaningless. It felt stressful and terrifying, but it definitely didn't feel meaningless.”
