Catechism Quote by N.D. Wilson Download Open image “We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.” — N.D. Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Catechism Creatures Narrative Needs Nourishment Storytelling
“We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.” — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Narrative is an open-ended invitation to ethical and poetical responsiveness. Storytelling invites us to become not just agents of our own lives, but narrators… — Richard Kearney 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
Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on. — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Narrative nonfiction is an act of conception and construction; it is formation of a personal legend from the mist of memory using mental hydraulics… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to hang the… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“I think human beings have evolved to appreciate narrative, in the same way that we have evolved to learn language. What is narrative, after… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Story is the mechanism by which we live, express, understand, and evolve. Story is more than just equipment for living — it’s life itself.… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
“But if that was going to happen, it was going to happen whether or not he worried about it.” — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“We haven't stopped running, but we are getting slower. We have little people running with us now. We have passed others. Our own people… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are,… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“He was a man with eyebrows, or maybe they were eyebrows with a man. Ownership would have been hard to establish, and Cyrus couldn’t… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
After three years down here, I've not learned too much. But one thing I do know is that our bellies aren't big enough for… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down.… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
If God gives you (or makes you) a joke, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Laugh.) If God gives you… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Infinite goes all the way up and all the way down; and at every level, with equal attention, He creates with the full dose… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
God is a God of galaxies, of storms, of roaring seas and boiling thunder, but He is also the God of bread baking, of… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive. — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him? The Catechism of the Catholic Church… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated.… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
