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God is an author

• God alone is the author of all the motions in the world. Rene Descartes
• God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers. Isaac Bashevis Singer
• God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven. Honore de Balzac
• God is the celebrity author of the world’s best seller. Daniel J. Boorstin
• God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored. Edwin Louis Cole
• God writes with a pen that never blots… Charles Spurgeon
• I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value. Joyce Meyer

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God has authored all

• Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art. Terence McKenna

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God has authored the universe and nature

• Nature is a volume of which God is the author. William Harvey
• God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion. Robert Boyle
• We might also insightfully think of this God as Author of Life or Poet of the Universe. Carolyn Jane Bohler
• After all, the living book of God’s creation lies open for all to see; it points constantly to the divine calling for which we were placed in nature. Eberhard Arnold

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God is authoring the biggest novel ever written…

• If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I’m the lead character in the story, but like every man and woman on Earth, I am a suporting player in one of billions of subplots. You know what happens to supporting players. Too often they are killed off in chapter 3, or in chapter 10, or in chapter 35. A supporting player always has to be looking over his shoulder. Dean Koontz
• Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs. Mary Higgins Clark

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… a novel full of plots and twists

• God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves. Eugene H. Peterson
• The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God. Edgar Allan Poe
• If God is the author of life, there must be a script. Ravi Zacharias
• A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise… Because this is how life is: full of surprises. Isaac Bashevis Singer

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God is authoring a poem

• We are all writing God’s poem. Anne Sexton

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God is authoring a play

• God cast you in His play, wrote you into His story. He has a definite direction for your life. Fulfill it and enjoy fulfillment. Play the part God prepared for you and get ready for some great days. Max Lucado

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God is authoring a giant cosmic story

• Our own lives, are just an eyeblink in the cosmic story. Roman Krznaric
• If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious. M. Forster

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In fact, the universe is composed, not of atoms, but of stories…

• Maybe instead of strings it’s stories: things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant super-story, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that’s why no story on its own makes any sense, and so what you have to do in a life is try and weave it back together, my story into your story, our stories into all the other people’s we know, until you’ve got something that to God or whoever might look like a letter, or even a whole word…. Paul Murray
• The universe is made up of stories, not atoms. Muriel Rukeyser
• What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms? And they give me hope.  Neil Gaiman

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…for God, the author, loves nothing more than a great story

• God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity. Randy Alcorn
• God made (human beings) because he loves stories. Elie Wiesel
• Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories. Jonathan Sacks
• God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman

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God is authoring the story of history

• History is a story written by the finger of God. S. Lewis
• There’s a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings. Rick Warren
• There’s a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings. Rick Warren

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God is authoring the story of our lives

• God is orchestrating what he ordained for you. God has written every day of your life in his books. Before you were in your womb, god knew you and planned out all your days. Not only are your steps being divinely orchestrates, he’s orchestrating the steps of others and circumstances around you. Joel Osteen
• God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices. Peter Kreeft
• Life is a story and god is the author. Albert Camus
• Not without design does God write the music of our lives. John Ruskin
• Better to have a small role in God’s story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction. LeCrae
• God has a story to tell about you. A major part of it is you telling yours. Tosca Lee
• I’m a minor player in my own life story. Tony Wilson
• Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live?  Because our Maker  opened his mouth and began to tell a story.  ND Wilson
• Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your life. Love well, laugh often… Don’t hide away or be a follower. Be the wonderful unique person God made you to be. Karen Kingsbury
• You and I are characters in God’s Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose. Randy Alcorn
• Your life is a beautiful story written by God himself.

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We’re all stories in the end, written by God

• 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
• We are a story, each of us, a bundle of stories, some as false as phantom islands but believed in nevertheless. Some might be true. Linda Hogan
• We’re all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Matt Smith
• To be a person is to have a story to tell. Isak Dinesen
• Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside – some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me – we aren’t so special, bro. Dean Koontz
• There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. Mark Twain
• A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it. Fred Allen
• A human life is a story told by God. Hans Christian Andersen
• Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story. Marty Rubin
• Death is not a period but a comma in the story of life. Amos J. Farver
• Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself. Michael Meade
• God wrote every chapter in your story. Kariana Reyes

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Each life is an individual story…

• Every life comes with a story … and a possibility for a great adventure. Kobi Yamada
• Life is a journey which needs to be completed and every experience is just a story on its own. Surej Kumar
• Life is a story and god is the author. Albert Camus
• Life is too short for a long story. Mary Wortley Montagu
• Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. Leo Buscaglia
• My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident. Hans Christian Anderson
• My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart. Shauna Niequist
• We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. Oliver Sacks
• My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met. Jonathan Safran Foer
• My life is based on a true story.
• Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . It’s just that there are more of them. Everyone has chapters and cliffhangers. Everyone has their journey to make. Some go far and wide and come back empty-handed; some don’t go anywhere and their journey makes them richest of all. Some tales have a moral and some don’t make any sense. Some will make you laugh, others make you cry. The world is a library, young Poison, and you’ll never get to read the same book twice. Chris Wooding
• There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. Anais Nin

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… a unique story being written for each of us

• If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that God is a very creative author, and He writes a different story for every person. No two lives or stories alike. Robin Jones Gunn
• We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. K. Jemisin

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Each life is a biography of wisdom and grace

• Life, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in the strict sense of the word, drama. The primary, radical meaning of life appears when it is employed in the sense not of biology, but of biography. For the very strong reason that the whole of biology is quite definitely only a chapter in certain biographies, it is what biologists do in the portion of their lives open to biography. Jose Ortega y Gasset
• Thankfully I am not the author of my own personal story. Your story isn’t an autobiography either. Your story is a biography of wisdom and grace written by another. Every turn he writes into your story is right. Every twist of the plot is for the best. Every new character or unexpected event is a tool of his grace. Each new chapter advances his purpose. Paul Tripp

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God, the author, expresses through each of us

• The way we can motivate ourselves to keep improving is to consider ourselves to be living more and more closely to what God means to express through us. Carolyn Jane Bohler

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God, the author, is visible in his work

• The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. Gustave Flaubert
• Beauty is God’s handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him. Charles Kingsley

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God, the author, keeps working on us…

• Both the Divine Author and Divine Potter metaphors can lead us to consider that God is an Artisan who enjoys being creative, who likes to edit, mold, and shape us. This is a fun way of thinking of how God keeps working on us. Carolyn Jane Bohler

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…developing and working each character and plot

• By God’s grace, I am learning that in these in-between chapters, character development takes place. He’s teaching me trust, patience, and how to wait on him through the unknown. Just like with fictional characters, unexpected twists and turns and trials come into our lives, many of them being entirely out of our control. But the author always knows how the story is going to end before the characters do. Kariana Reyes
• If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He’s a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn’t change, the story hasn’t happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another. Donald Miller

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Some of us are first drafts while others are more revised

• If we were to consider ourselves the handiwork of God the Author, we could imagine ourselves as God’s poetry or prose. Maybe some of us feel like first drafts, while others sense that they have gone through many revisions and have and have been transformed by the Author’s arduous task of expressing exactly what the Author intends to say. Carolyn Jane Bohler
• Some of us are probably third or fourth drafts of God’s poetry. Carolyn Jane Bohler
• We can think of our self-improvement as a partnership. God is editing us, or we are letting God, the Author of Life Divine, edit us. Maybe when we are close to being a final draft, we are close to what God is trying to create through us. Carolyn Jane Bohler

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Trust God to write your story

• Faith thanks God in the middle of the story. Ann Voskamp
• God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it. Steven Curtis Chapman
• I’m letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn’t work well. Nikki Gil
• So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze. Dan B. Allender

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Hand the pen to God

• The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance. Leslie Ludy

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God can rewrite your story at any time if do don’t like where its heading

• God can rewrite your story. Yes of course, in case you don’t know. God can rewrite your story from being miserable to being enviable and from the worst to the best. Emeasoba George

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The metaphor of God, the author, indicates God is in charge

• Metaphors such as Puppeteer, Author, and Potter all convey a similar sense of God as being “the one in charge,” an almighty power who makes things happen. Yet even these metaphors have nuances that hint at other possibilities. Carolyn Jane Bohler
• There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny. Ravi Zacharias
• God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires. Edwin Louis Cole

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Some would argue, however, that as characters, we don’t always bend to the author’s intent

• I was told by a couple of puppeteers that some puppets have a “mind of their own.” Fictional characters do not always bend to their author’s intent. Neither does clay always cooperate with the potter. Carolyn Jane Bohler

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If we wish for a greater sense of control, we can see ourselves as co-authors with God

• George acknowledged his own power to make some things happen and claimed more of that power by entertaining the idea of God as Co-author, rather than Author. This gave him a way of thinking about God that matched his life experience—that both God and he affected what happened to him. Carolyn Jane Bohler
• I don’t know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It’s up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win. Mary J. Blige
• Imagine a new story for your life and start living it. Paulo Coelho
• Life is a story. Make yours a bestseller.
• With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character. Olivia Munn
• You are the director of your own life story. Don’t cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act. Dane Cook
• You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day. Katherine Center
• You write your life story by the choices you make. Helen Mirren
• Your life is a story and you are the narrator. How you choose to tell your story is up to you. Colleen Archer
• Your life is your own novel. Start writing its first chapter now! Fill your book with adventure, love and happiness.  Live the story you designed for yourself.
• Make your life a story worth telling. Adam Braun
• Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It’s the art of storytelling and I’m only telling mine. ASAP Rocky
• The way we tell our life story is the way we begin to live our life. Maureen Murdock
• We are the hero of our own story. Mary McCarthy

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Some argue there are some things God doesn’t author

• Sin must be within God’s eternal decrees in some sense in which He is not the author of it . . . We must conclude then that within the decrees of God, there are decrees of permission of those things of which God Himself is not the author. Oliver Buswell
• God doesn’t author hardship but uses it to strengthen us for greater conquests. He never leads us into a storm that He doesn’t give us the power to overcome. John Bevere
• God is not the author of all things, but of good only. Plato
• God is not the author of confusion but is the author of peace. Quentin L. Cook

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Some argue God does not author evil…

• I don’t doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil! Tony Campolo
• While God is not the author of evil… but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.  Charles R. Swindoll

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…while others argue he does to thicken the plot

• I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it. Mahatma Gandhi
• Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot. Ramakrishna
• Why can’t God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It’s the same reason the comic book character can’t get rid of his nemesis; then there’s no story. Bill Maher

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Some don’t rate God as a good author

• I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman’s power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters. Joe Hill
• Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It’s like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in and out who have nothing to do with the plot. And when somebody comes along that you think really has something to do with the plot, he suddenly drops out. After a while you begin to wonder what the story is about, and you feel that it’s about nothing—just a jumble. G. Wodehouse

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A great writer is a God-surrogate

• I sometimes imagine a great writer as a sort of God-surrogate: the writer is doing his or her human-best to emulate what God might think of is, if God was inclined to observe some human beings and present their activities in the form of a narrative. George Saunders

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The present, past and future all co-exist in God’s book, but we get to experience it page by page

• If time is an illusion and we are The Knower’s imagining, then all that we experience as the ‘past’ – history – is in fact part of the imagining, His Story as it were, not something which happened, but an integral part of now. At any point in a story you read, the first chapter is just as now as the current chapter and the last chapter. In this sense, the story for each of us can be different, and what is ‘true’ in history is what our collective consciousnesses agree on as being common to our stories. Scott Owen