Parables Quotes

65 Parables quotes by 57 unique authors

--"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
Jesus disclosed that God is compassionate. Jesus spoke of God that way: "Be compassionate, as God is compassionate." Compassion is the primary quality of the… — Marcus Borg
Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off. — Lionel Blue
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be… — A. S. Byatt
Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money. One out of ten verses in the New Testament deals with that subject. Scripture offers… — John Macarthur
Allah is the light of the heaven and the earth. The parable of his light is as if it were a niche; enclosed in glass,… — Allah

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