Parables Quotes

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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
He who retains unchangeable in his heart the rule of the truth which he received by means of baptism will doubtless recognise the names, the… — Irenaeus of Lyons
To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is… — John Burroughs
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
In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely. — George Sweeting
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
Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we should not know… — 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
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life… — William T. Vollmann
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
He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and… — Frederick Buechner
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
A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also… — Anthony de Mello
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
How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes… — Matt Ridley
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the… — Richard Dawkins
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. — Peter Morgan

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