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Ack! Parables. I hate parables. -- Christopher Moore
The Vision of Christ that thou dost see, Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine is the Friend of all Mankind, Mine speaks in Parables to the blind. Thine loves the same world that mine hates, Thy heaven-doors are my hell gates. -- William Blake
On every parable you ride to every truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. -- Simone Weil
The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly. -- Henry David Thoreau
Earthly regeneration is a parable, but just alone a parable of the things to come. -- Paul Althaus
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. -- Beeban Kidron
The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches. -- Carl Jung
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech. -- Dan Barker
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
Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made. -- Lewis B. Smedes
All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable. -- Paul Claudel
Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith. -- Austin Farrer
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 either. A parable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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 in images and parables. -- Werner Heisenberg
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, tresspass and Babylon and covenant. -- Penelope Lively
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 ages: Let us walk through the door. -- John Updike
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 shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love. -- W. H. Auden
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 on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself. -- Brian D. McLaren
All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
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 considered a go-getter, but to urge our young people to rise at 5:30 to pray is considered fanaticism. We must once again wear the harness of discipline. There is no other way. -- Leonard Ravenhill
To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is a storehouse of images, fancies, a source of inspiration; to the moralist she is a storehouse of precepts and parables; to all she may be a source of knowledge and joy. -- John Burroughs
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 or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence? -- Marilynne Robinson
Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we should not know that Jesus taught in parables, had delivered the sermon on the mount, and had taught His disciples the 'Our Father.' Even where they are specially relevant, Paul passes over the words of the Lord. -- Albert Schweitzer
Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. -- Camille Paglia
In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely. -- George Sweeting
Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn. -- Cathleen Falsani
From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus. -- Tullian Tchividjian
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? -- Thomas Hardy
Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off. -- Lionel Blue
Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it. -- John Bytheway
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. -- Richard Dawkins
Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves. -- Philip Yancey
It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables. -- John Berger
Peruse all the sermons of Jesus and you will be sure to find parables, and sometimes allegory. What you will always find, however, is something of keeping our hearts in order. -- Jerome Strong
Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to. -- Peter Block
Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.' Sam held out his hand. "Give me some tobacco and a paper. -- Roger Zelazny

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