Parable Quotes

43 quotes by 40 authors

Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made. — Lewis B. Smedes
And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they… — Pete Seeger
The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which… — Albert Schweitzer
All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or… — Paul Claudel
These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. — Beeban Kidron
Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable,… — Dudley Nichols
Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing… — John Berger
The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the Sower,… — John Stokes
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. — Peter Morgan
Humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy. According to the Lord's parable, the importunity of the… — Lorenzo Scupoli
Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the… — Austin Farrer
Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon. — Morton Feldman
The parable of the talents is a good analogy of what happens when we give. When we merely try to hold on to what is… — John Templeton
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting… — A. A. Gill
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one… — Mary Catherine Bateson
A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the stones, and the… — Richard Hamming
Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time… — George Vaillant
I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable,… — Penelope Lively

Who Wrote These Parable Quotes

40 authors contributed a total of 43 Parable Quotes, led by these top contributors: