Quotes About Parable

All things transient are but a parable.

All that must disappear Is but a parable; What lay beyond us, here All is made visible; Here deeds have understood Words they were darkened by; The Eternal Feminine Draws us on high.

Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness.

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

The maid is not dead, but sleepeth.

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind.

The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed.

For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

There was a man in our town,And he was wondrous wise;He jumped into a bramble bushAnd scratched out both his eyes.

??c Jesus trò chuy?n vá»›i nh?ng ng??i cùng Ä'inh, Ä'ói nghèo v? nh?ng l? khôn ngoan trong ??i th??ng. Ngài báo Tin M?ng cho h?: l? khôn ngoan ?y chính là dành cho các b?n. NhÆ°ng ai l?ng nghe? Ch?ng ai thèm ?? ý, h? thích ng? mê hÆ¡n.

Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.

Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories.

The language of logical argument, of proofs,is the language of the limited self we know and can manipulate. But the language of parable and poetry, of storytelling,moves from the imprisoned language of the provable into the free language of what I must, for lack of another word, continue to call faith.

More joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety-and-nine just persons, who need it not.

Take for example the commencement address he [James Garfield] delivered at his alma mater Hiram College in the summer of 1880. ... The only thing stopping this address from turning into a slacker parable is the absence of the word 'dude'.

What is destructible Is but a parable; What fails ineluctably, The undeclarable, Here it was seen, Here it was action; The Eternal-Feminine Lures to perfection.

If an audience kept complete silence during a challenge parable from Jesus and if an audience filed past him afterward saying, 'Lovely parable, this morning, Rabbi,' Jesus would have failed utterly.

That is, by the way, an introductory definition of a parable: a story that never happened but always does—or at least should.

It was to answer the accusation of the scribes and Pharisees to the effect that Jesus chose the companionship of sinners that he spake the parables concerning the lost sheep, the lost silver, and the prodigal son, and in these presentations showed that his mission to the world was not to make miserable, not to condemn and destroy, but to recover that which was lost.

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

Stories can be true without being literally and factually true.

Jesus was a rabbi, schooled by rabbis, who thought like rabbis. Rabbis, upon being asked a question by a disciple, usually answer with a paradoxical inquiry or a story. This can be annoying and time-consuming for those of us looking for neat, simple answers. But truth is too wild and complex to be contained in one answer, so Jesus often responded with a question or a parable.

avoid attempting to identify the parties involved. Instead of linking the bridegroom to God or Jesus, it is preferable to portray the arrival of the bridegroom as the arrival of the kingdom of God, for which some will be prepared and others not.

the miser is counting his gold pieces, unaware of Death, who holds two clear symbols: an hourglass and a pitchfork." "Why a pitchfork and not a scythe?" "Because Death reaps but the Devil harvests