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Without stories we end up with stereotypes -- a flat earth with flat cardboard figures that have no texture or depth, no INTERIOR.

Without stories we end up with stereotypes — a flat earth with flat cardboard figures that have no texture or depth, no INTERIOR.
– Eugene H Peterson

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  2. When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won’t please everybody, but it doesn’t fall flat. – Ronald P Chavez
  3. Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did -“ flat country seems to give the sky such a chance. – Dodie Smith
  4. How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance. – John Banville
  5. Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance. – Eugene H Peterson
  6. The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness. – Eugene H Peterson
  7. Facts & figures go to the brain. And, the brain tends to forget . Stories go straight to the heart. They make us feel. And, the heart remembers. – Dawn Gluskin
  8. Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
  9. the depth of a person’s character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility. – Frank E Peretti
  10. The depth of our compassion is proportional to the depth of our living. (65) – JeanYves Leloup
  11. It’s not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent. – Anne Michaels
  12. . . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth – Charles ens
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  14. Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream. – Eugene H Peterson
  15. My job is not to solve people’s problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives. – Eugene H Peterson
  16. We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us. – Eugene H Peterson
  17. The devil does some of his best work behind stained glass. – Eugene H Peterson
  18. God uses language to create and command us. – Eugene H Peterson
  19. Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence. – Eugene H Peterson
  20. The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot – Eugene H Peterson
  21. The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us. – Eugene H Peterson
  22. Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves. – Eugene H Peterson
  23. Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy. – Eugene H Peterson
  24. Preaching reveals God in action here and now — for ME. – Eugene H Peterson
  25. There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to. – Eugene H Peterson
  26. We do not become less needy, less dependent when we pray; we become more needy, more dependent, which is to say, more human. – Eugene H Peterson
  27. Isn’t it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets? – Eugene H Peterson
  28. You don’t make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true. – Eugene H Peterson
  29. 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
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  31. He’d make her work so hard that a job as a cardboard-box presser at the margerine factory would seem like paradise. – Jussi AdlerOlsen
  32. If the foundation of your house is righteousness then your wealth will not be like a cardboard house that collapses under a gentle blow of wind – Sunday Adelaja
  33. You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table. – CS Lewis
  34. I am sick of the dern box! I have not only stepped out of the hateful piece of cardboard, I have burned it and scattered the ashes over my past. – Tanya R Simon
  35. Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green. – Cathleen Falsani
  36. Ax-man. Cardboard isn’t one of the major food groups, remember?--Marco – Katherine Applegate
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  40. Words matter. Without words you can’t have stories and without stories we would never have heard of the Greatcoats. – Sebastien de Castell

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