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Storytelling is joke telling. It’s knowing your punchline, your ending. Knowing that everything you’re saying from the first sentence to the last is leading to a singular goal and ideally confirming some truth that deepens our understanding of who we are as human beings.

— Andrew Stanton, the writer of Toy Story and Wall-E, from a Ted talk  <link>

Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

— C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce  <link>

To find something that is given, one must first be looking for it. To understand an answer, one must first have asked the question, otherwise the explanation will sound like a foreign tongue, or like empty silence.

— Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis, Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word, Vol. 1.  <link>

A key has no logic to its shape. Its logic is: it turns the lock.

— G.K. Chesterton  <link>

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

— André Gide  <link>

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

— Søren Kierkegaard  <link>

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

— Joy Harjo  <link>

For you will certainly carry out God’s purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

— C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain  <link>

When you can no longer tell your own story without telling his, that’s when you have become a Christian.

— Fr. Charles Stanley, OFM Cap., source  <link>

From the Big Bang…

Our world is now understood to be a world where something really happens; the whole story of the world need not have been written down in the first quantum like a song on the disk of a phonograph. The whole matter of the world must have been present at the beginning, but the story it has to tell may be written step by step.

— Georges Lemaitre  <link>

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

— Mary Catherine Bateson  <link>

…to ask whether God or evolution created life is like asking whether Shakespeare or Hamlet killed Polonius. If there is no Shakespeare, Hamlet’s act is meaningless. It is merely the accidental arrangement of ink on a page. If there is a Shakespeare, however, his existence as the creator of the literary Denmark does not obviate the drama of the play. It is rather a necessary prerequisite for it. Shakespeare, as a playwright, is not a competitor with the drama of the play. 

— Michael Baruzzini, paraphrasing Stephen Barr, The Beauty of Creation  <link>