Quote by D.A. Carson Download Open image ““retelling ought to prove formative, nurturing, stabilizing, delightful.26”” — D.A. Carson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“The best stories, however, are living things, and as much as we may cherish the original, the true act of love comes in the… — Anne Boyd Rioux Copy Share Image
“These are the moments which possess the writer, not the lover, and which live on perpetually. One can return to them time and time… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“that alertness for measuring and weighing event against eventuality, circumstance against human nature, his own fallible judgement and mortal clay against not only human… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have… — Vittorio Vandelli Copy Share Image
“If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“Writers of the world, if you’ve got a story, I want to hear it. I promise it will follow me to my last breath.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Accurate and questioning dramatic and written narratives that expose true human character, is the necessary glue of any intelligent, enduring and compassionate society.” — Yon Walls Copy Share Image
“Dominating and consistent victories are one thing, seemingly impossible victories something else entirely, and the preserve of the very finest; a self-fulfilling, self-perpetuating prophecy… — Daniel Harris Copy Share Image
“No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The whole story, paradoxically enough, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion into the preposterous sends us back with renewed pleasure to the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“again. Here is a sober lesson. Even after times of spectacular revival, reformation, or covenantal renewal, the people of God are never more than… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“Looking closely at what these young people believe, one discovers that they have evidently never been taught the gospel of Jesus Christ. The absence… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“If chastening were merely a matter of remedial education to morally neutral people, the timing and severity would not matter very much; we would… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“The initial impetus to cross lines of race and heritage with the Gospel of Jesus Christ arose not from a committee planning world evangelization,… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“The greatest intercessors have always recognized that far more connects them with the common lot of sinners than what distinguishes them—and in any case… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“we cannot imagine that the church gathers for worship on Sunday morning if by this we mean that we then engage in something that… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“Be patient; it is better to be a chastened saint than a carefree sinner.” — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“Where there is flagrant disavowal of the truths essential to the gospel, where there is persistent and high-handed disobedience to the commands of Jesus,… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“To appeal…to some ill-defined and sentimental notion of love as the ground for contravening Scripture may be a lot of things, but it is… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“In a world of finite gods (often supported by one pantheistic deity), cyclical views of history, sub-biblical understandings of sin, multiplied idolatry, dualism that… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“genuinely righteous people invariably become more aware of their personal guilt and need for forgiveness than those who have become so foul and hard… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“By the time of the Mosaic covenant, the peace offering (Lev 17:11ff.) was the divinely prescribed means of maintaining a harmonious relationship between God… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
