Quote by James K.A. Smith Download Open image ““analysis of the story will sometimes undercut our antepredicative grasp of it).”” — James K.A. Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The importance of a story doesn't merely lie in the development of its plot and the characters involved in it, but in its exploration… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We… — Alan Watt Copy Share Image
“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in a deep… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Story is one of the foundation stones of the human mind along with rhythm and chant. If a collection of facts lacks a narrative… — Frank Vehafric Copy Share Image
“but the story's interest lies in my struggle over semantics and the moral resonance of interpreting the meaning of a word.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“There is always more to a story than just the story. There lies the beauty in analytic thinking.” — Self proclaimed Copy Share Image
“The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us,… — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
“By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something about the world.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“a story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.” — Joan Silber Copy Share Image
“Jesus is a teacher who doesn’t just inform our intellect but forms our very loves. He isn’t content to simply deposit new ideas into… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“So it is precisely our allergy to repetition in worship that has undercut the counterformative power of Christian worship—because all kinds of secular liturgies… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“too often we look for the Spirit in the extraordinary when God has promised to be present in the ordinary.5” — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Formative Christian worship paints a picture of the beauty of the Lord--and a vision of the shalom he desires for creation--in a way that… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Too much of our cultural analysis is rooted in thinking-thingism: we scan culture, listening for “messages,” bent on rooting out “false” teachings. But if… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“We confess knowledge without certainty, truth without objectivity.” — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inviting seekers into… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Discipleship, we might say, is a way to curate your heart, to be attentive to and intentional about what you love.” — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Your deepest desire,” he observes, “is the one manifested by your daily life and habits.”6 This is because our action—our doing—bubbles up from our… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Foucault. The seemingly disturbing, even Nietzschean claim that “power is knowledge” should push us to realize what MTV learned long ago: (a) the cultural… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“The doubter’s doubt is faith; his temptation is belief, and it is a temptation that has not been entirely quelled, even in a secular… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Worship works from the top down, you might say. In worship we don’t just come to show God our devotion and give him our… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
