"The greatest religions convert the world through stories." — Ben Okri

"The greatest religions convert the world through stories."

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89 Quotes by Ben Okri

Ben Okri has 89 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a…
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there…
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out…
The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering…
The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy:…
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole…
The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe,…
I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their…
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who…
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite…

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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female… — Margaret Atwood
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source… — Scott Adams
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. — Henry Ward Beecher
I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could… — Lord Byron
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. — Thomas Carlyle
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. — Thomas Aquinas
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for… — C.S. Lewis
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and… — C.S. Lewis
They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages.… — Barney Frank
I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt… — Phillip Lopate
we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education.… — Amartya Sen
I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a… — Therese of Lisieux

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