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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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Albert Schweitzer
- Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we… — Albert Schweitzer
- All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Frederick Buechner