Parables Quotes

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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
All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered… — Malcolm Muggeridge
If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you… — David Foster Wallace
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
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is… — Wendy Kaminer
Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon. — Morton Feldman
Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. — Camille Paglia
Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short… — Brian D. McLaren
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
We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the… — Luci Shaw
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 think you often say more by saying less. And interestingly enough, I mean, Jesus really set the standard. I mean, he could say more… — Mark Batterson
I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why… — Frederick Buechner
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
The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to deliver papers is… — Leonard Ravenhill
Earthly regeneration is a parable, but just alone a parable of the things to come. — Paul Althaus
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. — Malcolm Muggeridge

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