Parables Quotes
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he who speaks parables knows and understands the real meaning of parables better
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.
— Giulio Andreotti
Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
— Lionel Blue
From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.
— Tullian Tchividjian
It is my theory that the greater truths underlying life and death can be best be understood as a parable--that is, as a fiction.
— Genevieve Cogman
The symbolism in Jesus' parables is never thickly layered, and rarely even multidimensional.
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
On every parable you ride to every truth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.
— Eugene H. Peterson
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
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
— Criss Jami
Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.
— John Bytheway
Throughout the parables the paradoxical teachings continue: Give to receive. Die to live. Lose to win.
— Amos Smith
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
Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter.the Tai Chi instructor — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Ack! Parables. I hate parables.
— Christopher Moore
The miracles of our Lord are not miracles only. They are most frequently acted parables also.
— J.B. Lightfoot
Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.
— Cathleen Falsani
No man can prophesy with another's parable.
— Anna Julia Cooper
Jesus taught in parables for a reason.
— Stuart Connelly
To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.
— Chester Elijah Branch
When church becomes a club, parables become pedestrian.
— Amy-Jill Levine
One of the best books I've read was George S. Clason's The Richest Man in Babylon, which offers financial advice in a collection of parables.
— Sophia Amoruso
In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely.
— George Sweeting
The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.
— Henry David Thoreau
The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.
— Carl Jung
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
— Thomas Hardy
