When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We leave our place where we belong—close to his heart. — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
When you lose the story that's running like a golden stream underneath all the other stories, you're left with the idea that the Bible is a collection of random-seeming stories about various Bible characters that we're supposed to learn lessons from - almost like an Aesop's Fables. And a book of rules that God wants us to keep so he… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share
When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos.… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
If you write for children with respect and treat them with dignity - you'll capture the adults as well. Children deserve nothing but our… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
So that when you come to read the actual Bible you have a lay of the land. And you come to the Bible knowing… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
There are lots of stories in the Bible, but all the stories are telling one Big Story. The Story of how God loves his… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“But Jesus could see inside people. And inside, in their hearts, Jesus saw that they did not love God or other people. They were… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Why the connection with musicians? I think it's because in the end we're doing very similar things - we're telling stories, we're using poetic,… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Jesus told them, "God is like the dad who couldn't stop loving his boy, And people are like the son who said, "Does my… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book. — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
I wrote The Jesus Storybook Bible because I wanted children to know the Bible isn't mainly about you and what you're supposed to be… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
