Parables Quotes

65 Parables quotes by 57 unique authors

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
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

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