Great Quotes from Godstories

by Michael Novelli   |  March 30 2009    12:10 PM

I've excerpted some quotes from one of my favorite books for you to enjoy. I hope they connect with you and inspire you to explore how story can be transformative in shaping our lives. You can purchase the book at my Amazon store by clicking on the name at the bottom of this post.

“Redemption of humanity and earth hang on our discovering how to be a listening community formed by the story it hears.”

“The purpose of scripture is to unite us with our Maker and to invite us into God’s world of justice, grace, peace, order, hope, mercy, where God is making us and all the world whole. It is the story itself that moves us into sacred sphere.”

“Our lives must find their place in some greater story or they will find their place in a lesser story. Our contemporary postmodern world is a world of a thousand stories and a thousand gods. And these stories often become splintered images, brilliant, excitable, beautiful perhaps, but separated from any larger narrative to give them meaning and truth.”

–H. Stephen Shoemaker, Godstories: New Narratives from Sacred Texts, xx, xix