“When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.”

“We all need stories. What happens in our daily lives changes our stories.”

Wong Kar-wai (1958) Hong Kong screenwriter, film producer and film director

“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

“We are reading the story of our lives
As though we were in it
As though we had written it.”

Mark Strand (1934–2014) Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator

“What are we but our stories?”

James Patterson book Sam's Letters to Jennifer

“Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.”

Margaret J. Wheatley (1941) American writer

“Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as a series of events — a story — and when we can’t figure out what our particular story is, we feel lost somehow.”

Douglas Coupland book Player One

“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.”

Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist