The Story Quotes

“I am about to go the way of all the earth,” he said. “So be strong, act like a man, and observe what the LORD your God requires: Walk in obedience to him, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and regulations, as written in the Law of Moses. Do this so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you go and that the LORD may keep his promise to me: ‘If your descendants watch how they live, and if they walk faithfully before me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.”
― Anonymous, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”
― Randy Frazee, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
― Randy Frazee, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.”
― Zondervan Publishing, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“Then the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the LORD. And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation”
― Randy Frazee, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“Then they secretly persuaded some men to say, “We have heard Stephen speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.” So they stirred up the people and the elders and the teachers of the law. They seized Stephen and brought him before the Sanhedrin.”
― Randy Frazee, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”
― Anonymous, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“I will never leave you nor forsake you. Be strong and courageous, because”
― Anonymous, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.”
― Anonymous, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.”
― Anonymous, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other. Keep”
― Anonymous, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“The LORD said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How”
― Anonymous, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“LORD is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us. Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will devour them. Their protection is gone, but the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them.”
― Anonymous, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.”
― Anonymous, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“good. And there was evening, and there was morning — the sixth day.”
― Anonymous, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“It is to one’s honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel.”
― Anonymous, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”
― Anonymous, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”
― Anonymous, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
― Anonymous, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“How does a person please God? Many religions teach that one must appease God/gods with offerings or superstitious rituals. Yet God’s story abolishes our religious to-do lists. Faith in Jesus is God’s way for us, and delight in Jesus is what God asks of us. When religious people become followers of Jesus, they are freed from sin and legalistic rituals. The Christians in Galatia were coming under the influence of Jewish Christians who believed that a number of the ceremonial practices of Judaism remained obligatory for followers of Jesus. Paul wrote to the churches in this part of Asia Minor to warn them that they were in reality deserting God and turning to a false gospel. He forcefully proclaimed that people cannot be saved by performing good works in general or by adhering to the Law of Moses in particular. We must come to God trusting in Jesus alone. Only then will we experience freedom.”
― Anonymous, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”
― Anonymous, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“Yet the most awesome and important feature of this portable temple was not the furniture that filled it, but the Person who filled it.”
― Anonymous, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse — your whole nation — because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the LORD Almighty. “Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the LORD Almighty.”
― Zondervan Publishing, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”
― Zondervan Publishing, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.”
― Zondervan, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“I am the bread of life.2 Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”
― Randy Frazee, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”
― Randy Frazee, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead — since he was about a hundred years old — and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,”
― Randy Frazee, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
― Randy Frazee, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

“Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life.2 Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”
― Randy Frazee, The Story (NIV): The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People