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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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To frame is to put a language boundary around our experience. It is to name what happens in particular ways, to say how we see the world, and to see the world how we say it is. Framing includes tellin... -
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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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If you don't like someone's story, write your own. -
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Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different. -
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Personal storytelling—the kind that reveals who we are and what we care about—is the most potent and effective way to connect with the world around us. -
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Anyone who tells a story speaks a world into being. -
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The first rule of telling stories is to give the audience—whether it's one business person or a theater full of moviegoers—an emotional experience. The heart is always the first target in telling ... -
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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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There’s no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. -
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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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It is possible also to come at Christianity from a rather different point of view as well, seeing it as something not too difficult but too simple for us, too basic, something to be apprehended theref... -
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The sermon is no place for a virtuoso performance; it is a place for believers to explore together their common experience before God. The stories I tell from the pulpit are not just “my” stories but ... -
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We make our home by stories. -
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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 ... -
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What we . . . refer to confidently as memory . . . is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. -
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. -
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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty. -
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Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
![From [age three] on out, stories will not only entertain you](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1642715614665-8e5534e7e427?ixid=M3w1NzU0OTZ8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxfHxTdG9yaWVzfGVufDF8Mnx8fDE3MTA1MzQwNTh8MA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&auto=compress&fit=crop&w=200&h=200)
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