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Lewis wanted us to understand that the inner world is shaped by stories.

Lewis wanted us to understand that the inner world is shaped by stories.
– Alister E McGrath

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  1. Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination. – Alister E McGrath
  2. Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will. – Alister E McGrath
  3. Lewis is a rare example of someone who liked to think about life’s great questions because they were forced on him by his own experience. – Alister E McGrath
  4. Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible. – Alister E McGrath
  5. Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief. – Alister E McGrath
  6. Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way. – Alister E McGrath
  7. I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them. – Neil Gaiman
  8. We are not always shaped by our parents, Cas. We’re shaped by our choices. – Sarah Dalton
  9. I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. – Becca Fitzpatrick
  10. People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
  11. The world is shaped by two things -” stories told and the memories they leave behind. – Vera Nazarian
  12. She had a face that had had lived a thousand stories and none with a happy ending. – Jim McGrath
  13. Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
  14. Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
  15. Great leaders have three things; inner light, inner vision and inner strength. – Amit Ray
  16. Bridge miscommunications by talking to parents, hearing their stories, and learning how they’ve shaped yours. – Jason L Ma
  17. Quotes and notes to self -“ Find your inner peace!Don’tbe caught up in your outer world.Paygreater attention to your inner world – Allan Rufus
  18. I’m sorry, I say. I didn’t give you everything you wanted. I wasn’t everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted. – Kaui Hart Hemmings
  19. You can have all the words in the world,but if not said rightly, those words are simply wasted potential. – Joel T McGrath
  20. The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. – Mitch Albom
  21. Stories change us. They change the world. People are stories of themselves. – Karen Healey
  22. Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful. – Amit Ray
  23. Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. – Edward Hopper
  24. When you fill yourself with inner joy and inner peace, this world becomes peaceful. – Debasish Mridha
  25. Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them. – TS Eliot
  26. No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. – Anton Chekhov
  27. The more you learn about other people, the more you understand yourself; and the more you understand yourself, the more you understand other people. – Father Brown
  28. I can’t understand God and I can’t understand myself, so there’s no chance in hell that I’m going to understand you! – Anthony T Hincks
  29. The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them. – Hilary Mantel
  30. The world hangs like a heart-shaped locket around my neck. – Pam Farrel
  31. I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  32. Experience is the byproduct of agony. – Joel T McGrath
  33. It is a fact: Of all the people we ever know in our lifetime, the only thing we have in common with them is a handful of shared experiences. – Joel T McGrath
  34. Humans are easy to read, because what they’re not saying speaks volumes. – Joel T McGrath
  35. Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated. – Patrick McGrath
  36. Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families. – Patrick McGrath
  37. Martie was large, at least by Inuit standards, with skin the colour of an heirloom suitcase and a voice like a cartoon train wreck. – McGrath M J
  38. True love propels a person to great feats all without so much as a word. – Joel T McGrath
  39. Oh sod me, Sir, not another bloody Paddy. Even a Brummie is better than another Paddy. – Jim McGrath
  40. Perhaps that’s the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else’s happiness? – Patrick McGrath

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