Parables Quote by Michael Lister

I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is.…

— William P. Young

“As Christians, we claim the biblical story is true because it conforms to the actualities of God's existence and His dealings with human beings.…

— Ted Cabal

“It's safer to use fiction, which will not be taken for literal truth, but which, like Jesus' stories, can tell the truth indirectly yetpowerfully.”

— Wayne Martindale

“All stories are made of both truths and lies, [...] What matters is the way that we believe in them.”

— Stephanie Garber

As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that…

— Brock Yates

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.

— Darren Shan

“There is truth in stories,” said Arthur. “There is truth in one of your paintings, boy or in a sunset or a couplet from…

— Cassandra Clare

“There is truth in stories. There is truth in one of your paintings, boy, or in a sunset or a couplet from Homer. Fiction…

— Cassandra Clare

“The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality. Those who…

— Cassandra Clare

“Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact.”

— Virginia Woolf

“I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of…

— Orson Scott Card

“These are true stories told from memory – to which you are entitled to ask, what is truth, and what is memory to a…

— John le Carré