In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely. — George Sweeting Copy Share Image
“To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.” — Chester Elijiah Branch Copy Share Image
“Peruse all the sermons of Jesus and you will be sure to find parables, and sometimes allegory. What you will always find,… — Jerome Strong Copy Share Image
“The Cross is where the flesh goes to die. Its hands can no longer reach for what it desires because they have… — Dami Olu Copy Share Image
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be… — Greg Daniels Copy Share Image
Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
I think you often say more by saying less. And interestingly enough, I mean, Jesus really set the standard. I mean, he… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“Take the Gospel parables: what are these stories, these narratives, if not powerful invitations to people to locate themselves within the situations… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“By telling stories, Jesus isn’t somehow putting sugar in a spoon to make the medicine go down a bit easier. These stories… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use… — Lily Dougall Copy Share Image
When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Our worth is not determined by our current state but by the immutable truth that we bear the image and likeness of… — Dami Olu Copy Share Image
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. — Beeban Kidron Copy Share Image
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
In His discourses, His miracles, His parables, His sufferings, His resurrection, He gradually raises the pedestal of His humanity before the world,… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
A story of remarkable simplicity and charm. A young swimmer invites us into sea off the coast of California where through her… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I am really interested in who owns ideas of religion. What if I say I'm a libertarian, socialist, Occupy-supporting, anti-war, Christian? Is… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form… — Dudley Nichols Copy Share Image
Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its… — Malvina Hoffman Copy Share Image
Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Jesus disclosed that God is compassionate. Jesus spoke of God that way: "Be compassionate, as God is compassionate." Compassion is the primary… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
“These three people, Pascal, Blake, and Dostoyevsky, illustrate perfectly what I have long believed to be the case, that history consists of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
