Bible Quote by Craig G. Bartholomew

“The Holy Scriptures are story-shaped. Reality is story-shaped. The world is story-shaped. Our lives are story-shaped. 'I had always,' wrote G.K. Chesterton in accounting…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Contrary to the cavalier attitude many pastors and religious educators take on this point, the Bible’s narrative ingredients do matter for how we understand…

— Sarah Arthur

Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become…

— N. T. Wright

“Scripture is first and foremost a story. And it’s a story about God. We want to make it a story about us—about how to…

— John Mark Comer

“Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern patterns and…

— N.T. Wright

“We read scripture in order to be refreshed in our memory and understanding of the story within which we ourselves are actors, to be…

— N.T. Wright

“I think the Bible is largely an amazing and beautiful book of fictional stories from which we can glean the most wholesome lessons about…

— Nick Offerman

“Being truly biblical means that my counsel reflects what the entire Bible is about. The Bible is a narrative, a story of redemption, and…

— Paul David Tripp

One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories…

— Bruce Feiler

“The Bible is the saga of Yahweh and Adam, the prodigal son and his ever gracious heavenly father; humanity in their rebellion and God…

— Sandra L. Richter

“The Bible-as-story works. It works in all the ways that story itself works: in offering transcendence, identity, intimacy, timelessness, wonder, and so forth,”

— Sarah Arthur

“Scripture offers the unique access to the story of redemption and then, in turn, funds tradition, reason and experience, as God's Word is remembered,…

— Clark H. Pinnock