All stories are, in some form, prayers.
– Brian Doyle
Related Quotes:
- 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
- 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
- Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
- Not by prayers alone will a captive be freed, but by another man’s prayers matched by his deeds. – John Kramer
- Those who recite prayers do not pray from their heart but are heard to say the words of the prayers that someone wrote down some time ago. – Errol Anthony Smythe
- If you are not praying the type of prayers that scare you, your prayers are certainly not frightening our enemy. – Lisa Bevere
- When my prayers are answered, I am happy because it was my wish. When my prayers are not answered, I am even more happy because that was gods wish. – Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Prayers said by good people are always good prayers – Willa Cather
- I am a puzzle and a conundrum and a thunderstorm. – Brian Doyle
- …awkward passion is so often so very much more admirable than mere achievement. – Brian Doyle
- Love is the story and the prayer that matters the most. – Brian Doyle
- But if we do not dream, then I think perhaps we are misusing our heads. They are not on our shoulders only to be farms for hair. – Brian Doyle
- Maturity turns out to be a question you can never answer with confidence, despite advanced age and wage. – Brian Doyle
- The library became the cathedral where I would come to worship amd the stories were as precious to me as prayers. – Anita Anand
- Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. – Brian W Aldiss
- The sylph is a fragment of the earth’s soul in faery form. – Brian Froud
- It’s stories that inspire people to change. It’s stories that make them believe things can be better. – Sebastien de Castell
- The worst stories usually make you think: ‘but nobody had to die’.These are called true stories. – Moonshine Noire
- Stories shared in your kitchen will strengthen your family than the stories shared your bedroom – Kenneth Mahuka
- The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. – Mitch Albom
- What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can’t get that from a computer. – Sarah Jio
- We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people’s stories – that’s how it goes, does it not? – Susan Fletcher
- Without writers, stories would not be written,Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. – AngieMarie Delsante
- There’s no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds. – Kelly Barnhill
- Words matter. Without words you can’t have stories and without stories we would never have heard of the Greatcoats. – Sebastien de Castell
- Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic. – Joan Holub
- I had said before that all stories were magic. It had never occurred to me that all magic was stories. – Jim C Hines
- There’s no future in stories…Stories are things of the past, things for museums. – David Mitchell
- A disproportionate number of stories are love stories -“ and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love? – Christopher Bram
- …it’s not the stories – it’s the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told … – John Geddes
- What if all religions were stories, and all stories were true. – Rick Chiantaretto
- When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it’s an odd feeling to switch stories. – Donald Miller
- Stories are not real life, stories are pieces of morality made entertaining. – Matthew Jarpe
- Wrong decisions make a good stories, lies make a very good stories – Nourhan Mamdouh
- Once upon a time, a king came to earth to tell stories, and the stories contained the mystery of eternal life. – Jared C Wilson
- The journey as a writer is not so much about our stories, but the stories of others we meet along the way on our wonderful path. #grateful – Lee BiceMatheson
- Stories change us. They change the world. People are stories of themselves. – Karen Healey
- We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about ‘coming back,’ and so on. But they are all stories. – Steve Hagen
- Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories. – Nicholas Dawidoff
- We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality. – Danielle Ganek