Parables Quotes

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. — Simone Weil
From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus. — Tullian Tchividjian
The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh, I get it," I said. "It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat. — Christopher Moore
The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains,… — Rebecca Solnit
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? — Thomas Hardy
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse… — Marilynne Robinson
Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it… — Werner Heisenberg
There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier… — John Updike
--"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal. — Marilynne Robinson
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for… — Philip Jose Farmer
Greed is not defined by what something costs; it is measured by what it costs you. If anything costs you your faith or your family,… — Max Lucado
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way… — Robert Frost
What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and… — Jack Vance
whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Ack! Parables. I hate parables. — Christopher Moore
A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to… — Nick Harkaway
Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes… — Cormac McCarthy
If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring… — Richard Dawkins

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