Character Quote by Karen Kingsbury

“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely…

— Donna Goddard

“They teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. This is…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Spirituality and each spiritual asset are nebulous and only understandable within the narrative of each person’s story.”

— Daniel D. Maurer

“[Fables] teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. This is…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it…

— Harvey Cox

“Spirituality must be distinguished from religion—because people of every faith, and of none, have had the same sorts of spiritual experiences.”

— Sam Harris

“Stories are masks of God. That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and…

— Melanie Tem

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Most spiritual people are so obsessed with their own ideas about what spirituality is supposed to be that they completely ignore and neglect the…

— Robin Sacredfire

“Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and…

— Flannery O'Connor

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across…

— Francis Spufford

Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.

— Jerry Bridges