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Quotes about Ending

Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern patterns and meanings within them. Stories of all sorts form and shape the character of those who read them. We live within the narrative as creatures in search of an ending, in search of happiness.
- NT Wright
We have reduced the kingdom of God to private piety, the victory of the cross to comfort for the conscience, and Easter itself to a happy, escapist ending after a sad, dark tale.
- NT Wright
And last of all, the woman died.
- Matthew 22:27
After all, the purpose of negative stakes in a story is to contrast with the happy ending we all want to experience.
- Donald Miller
Remember that your life is a story. Why not write your own ending-and then make it happen.
- Jack Canfield
In both our personal and professional lives, there are times when reality dictates that we must stand up and 'end' something. Either its time has passed, its season is over, or worse, continuing it would be destructive in some way.
- Henry Cloud
If the final chapter of your life story is written by love, you are guaranteed a happy ending.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Always begin and end the message on a positive note rather than on a pessimistic or detached one.
- Dale Carnegie
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
- Abraham Lincoln
Grace meant God knew her past and still offered her a beautiful future. An unbreakable happy ending.
- Susan May Warren
But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.
- John Milton