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For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.

The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.

It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or ideas that have become in some way almost alive and aware.

One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God's role in the world as well as our own position in a long line of ancestors who have wrestled with similar issues to the ones we wrestle with every day.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.