Quotes about Narrative

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

We were made to be distracted by life, by story.

When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.

I was a tree in a story about a forest, the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree

God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me specifically into the story, and He put us in specifically with the sunsets in the rainstorms as though to say, Enjoy your place in My story, the very beauty of it means it's not about you, and in time that will give you comfort.

And once you know what it takes to live a better story, you don't have a choice. Not living a better story would be like deciding to die, deciding to walk around numb until you die, and it's not natural to want to die.

You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the characters and conflict hang in the air like smoke.

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

Victor Frankl whispered in my ear all the same. He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.

Good stories don't happen by accident, I learned. They are planned.

Now that you've established the first three sections as a positive, negative, and then positive movement in the story, your customers are likely hooked.