Erwin McManus Quotes

The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.

Erwin McManus

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• A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • Good
  • Never
  • Story

• When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Running

• Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Character
  • Play
  • Rock

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Real
  • Kids

• You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Up
  • You
  • Story

• As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Kind
  • Story
  • Forget

• As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Always
  • Story
  • Weakness

• Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and tell a story.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Character
  • Story
  • Brand

• I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Years
  • Story
  • Toy

• Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Story
  • Just

• We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Style

• When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Truth
  • Acting
  • Story

• 'Twilight' is a breathlessly addictive read with a love story that sucks people in.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Love
  • Story

• You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as a fun little role but it was more of a cameo, not anywhere near as developed as this role.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Know

• We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Good
  • Drama
  • Story

• I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Up
  • Story
  • Competition

• Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Past
  • Present
  • Story

• I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Think
  • Story
  • Talent

• Abraham was the first to teach the Unity of God, to establish the faith, to cause it to remain among coming generations, and to win his fellow-men to his doctrine; as Scripture says of him: 'I know him, that he will command,' &c. (Gen. xviii. 19)

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Men
  • Faith

• My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God - he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Proud
  • Story
  • Idea

• I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Story
  • Rescue
  • Fires

• My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Cool

• The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Story
  • Scripture
  • Regard