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From [age three] on out, stories will not only entertain you, they will explain you to others and to yourself. -
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God made Man because He loves stories. -
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Myth becomes myth not in the living but in the retelling. -
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The key to interpreting most allegories [i.e., parables] lies in recognizing what a small handful of characters, actions or symbols correspond to and then fitting the rest of the story in with them. -
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Stories are inherently interesting. Discourse we tolerate; to story we attend. Story entertains, informs, involves, motivates, authenticates, and mirrors existence. By creating a narrative world, stor... -
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Stories, after all, are one of the most basic modes of human life and are a characteristic expression of worldview. Human life is constituted by a series of stories, implicit and explicit, that makes ... -
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Stories, it turns out, are not optional. They are essential. Our need for them reflects the very nature of perceptual experience, and storytelling is embedded in the brain itself. -
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After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. -
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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... it is precisely through ... -
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. -
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A pilgrimage is a journey undertaken in response to a story. -
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An enemy is one whose story we have not heard. -
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We make our home by stories. -
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“He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men... -
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What often continues to shape our stories (interpretations) are the implicit emotional responses to our wounds. We must be willing to attend to our wounds and address the emotions embedded in our woun... -
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A Story is life with the dull parts taken out. -
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I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?'”. -
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The shortest distance between a human being and the truth is a story. -
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I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know... -
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A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. -
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The story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us in the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened. -
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Being in God’s story does not mean passively letting things happen to us. It doesn’t mean dumb submission or blind obedience. -
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[T]here are only two stories that make any difference—God’s story and the human story. We all are living out different versions of those two stories with an infinite number of variations. God’s story,... -
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The merchant’s success depends on his or her ability to tell a story. What people see or hear or smell or do when they enter a space guides their feelings, enticing them to celebrate whatever the sell... -
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Fiction does not ask us to believe things,” he points out, “but to imagine them.” “Imagining the heat of the sun on your back is about as different an activity as can be from believing that it will be... -
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Stories are about the vicissitudes of human intention. Trouble is what drives the drama. -
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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. -
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The truth to which all this fiction refers, from which it takes its authority, is the very oldest truth, right out of Genesis. We are not at ease in this world, and sooner or later it kills us. -
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The moral a story teaches is, fundamentally, to the heart. -
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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