Quotes About God Writing Your Story

#1. I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to say I'm a writer and to actually write more things! It legitimized the activity.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. This is just the present chapter of my life. How can I give up when God isn't finished writing my story yet?

Deb Brammer

#3. In the story of life, the prologue and epilogue are written by God. Yet the plot has been given to us; therefore we should write the best prose we can.

James D. Maxon

#4. Be expectant ... God is not finished writing your story!

Joy Marino

#5. God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

Peter Kreeft

#6. Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing.

Evinda Lepins

#7. If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.

Katherine Anne Porter

#8. When I naturally write a story and I feel that the guy (is) sitting across the table from the girl and flirting with her ... I think, 'God, that can't be me' because I'm just too old for that part. You need a 30-year-old or a 35-year-old for that part. And so I've given myself less and less roles.

Woody Allen

#9. I actually don't know how magazines are produced, I'll be honest with you. I have no idea.

Graydon Carter

#10. I'm letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn't work well.

Nikki Gil

#11. When there's a great horror movie, people are like, 'Horror's back!' And when there's a series of not so good ones, 'Horror's dead.' I think it's all about the quality. When there are one or two good horror movies in a row, people come out interested again.

Jason Blum

#12. Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are we going to let Him? Are we going to trust Him?

Beth Moore

#13. What if God, in giving us life, invites us to collaborate in writing the story of our lives?

Adam Hamilton

#14. Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

Gail Simmons

#15. You may believe in God, but never forget - it's God who believes in you. Every morning that the sun rises and you get to rise? That's God saying He believes in you, that He believes in the story He's writing through you. He believes in you as a gift the world needs.

Ann Voskamp

#16. Because I believe that this too shall be used by God. Somehow, this story He is writing will live on.

Kristy Cambron

#17. Writing a novel mimics what we bring to our journey of life. God is the great editor who purges the faulty, the awkward, and all the bits that are just plain wrong, so the optimal story can finally emerge.

Denise M. Baran-Unland

#18. The Christmas story is penmanship of the most brilliant sort, where God crafted a beginning that would never be subject to an ending.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#19. For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

Edward Everett Hale

#20. The thing that's interesting about storytelling is people will say, "How do I write a movie I can get sold in this category?" For God's sake, the first movie that you can get made will be your personal story, because nobody's heard it before.

Joan Tewkesbury

#21. As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#22. It's not so much about writing the story of Christmas itself, as ingenious as it is. In reality, it's much more about writing the story of Christmas into the story of life so that it will become the story of life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It's just bad writing, really. And it's really terrible in about the second act.

Trey Parker

#24. The Bible is the story so far in the true novel that God is still writing.

N. T. Wright

#25. Literary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, "Oh my god! I'm telling a story! Oh, that can't be the case, because I'm a clever person. I'm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself? I know! I'll write Ulysses."

Philip Pullman

#26. We write because something inside says we must and we can no longer ignore that voice.

Sheila Bender

#27. Our bodies are our vehicles of life. They are ours to take care of. If we aren't taking care of them, they show signs of stress and wear. If we are taking care of our bodies, they show signs of healing and resiliency. A healthy body is an inspired body, and an inspired body is a happy body.

Elaina Marie

#28. All around us God is writing a grand story of His love and He invites us to let our lives fill the pages.

Kristen McNulty

#29. God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!

Agatha Christie

#30. I come from a very expressive family, so it's really not surprising that we became actors. There was a lot of real-life drama in our house. Some of it was drama, some of it was comedy and some of it was comic-tragedy.

John Turturro

#31. God is writing His story on the pages of our lives.

Rick Anderson

#32. The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.

Shannon L. Alder