"When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves."

-- Eugene H. Peterson

#Plot Quotes #Stories Quotes #Scripture Quotes

“I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.”
“All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain.”
“I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).”
“I was a child or didn't live through those presidents prior to [Ronald] Reagan, and thus didn't realize how little attention they had paid to the founders.”
“Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.”
“The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.”
“We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.”

Source : "The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter IV, Part 6, The Inertia of History, p. 195, 1960.

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