Quotes about Narration

The world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully. But also that by telling the story of the world, we are changing the world. That is why God created the letters of the alphabet, that we might have the opportunity to narrate to him what he created. Reb Mordke always chuckled at this. "God is blind. Did you not know that?" he would say. "He created us that we would be his guides, his five senses.

Do not leave any unexplained, unnarrated situations, any closed doors; kick them down with a course.

That the world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully.

When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described to him all that had happened to them:

one writerly habit was describing everything I did, no matter how absorbing or how trivial, as if I were standing outside myself and watching.

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

The narration of the facts is history; the narration of the facts with the meaning of the facts is doctrine. Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried--that is history. He loved me and gave Himself for me--that is doctrine. Such was the Christianity of the primitive Church.

The strange thing about Christianity was that it adopted an entirely different method. It transformed the lives of men not by appealing to the human will, but by telling a story; not by exhortation, but by the narration of an event.

There is so much bias for self-love, so much recklessness about truth in general, and so much of even a sincere faithlessness of narration, that no partial account of anything is to be trusted.

How we think about the world and - perhaps even more importantly - how we narrate it have a massive significance, therefore, a thing that happens and is not told ceases to exist and perishes.

we who seek to indwell the Bible's Story are indwelling the omniscient perspective of the divine's narration.