Quotes About Parable

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.

If we trust Jesus' own storytelling approach, we must trust the Spirit to work in and through story without the need to interpret every metaphor, every parable, every time. But

if we consider the various ways the imagination is engaged throughout scripture—through dreams, visions, metaphor, poetry, prophecy, parable (not to mention the very act of reading)—every page begins to light up with evidence of the imagination's role in divine-human doings.

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.

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? It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

Cranky old Leviticus gave us—gave Christ—not only "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" but also the rather forgotten "Thou shalt love the stranger as thyself," two verses that appear to be merged in the Parable of the Good Samaritan.

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 is easier,'" said Mr. Outhouse solemnly, "'for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

Horror is made of such base material—so easily rejected or dismissed—that it may be hard to accept my postulate that within the genre lies one of the last refuges of spirituality in this, our materialistic world. But it is a fact that, through the ages, most storytellers have had to resort to the fantastic in order to elevate their discourse to the level of parable.

God put the physical world under a curse so that the physical horrors we see around us in diseases and calamities would become a vivid picture of how horrible sin is. In other words, physical evil is a parable, a drama, a signpost pointing to the moral outrage of rebellion against God.

In other words, physical evil is a parable, a drama, a signpost pointing to the moral outrage of rebellion against God.

I will tell you a parable. To what can this situation be compared: A fox was once walking alongside of a river and saw swarms of fish going from place to place. He said to them: 'From what are you fleeing?' "The fish replied: 'From the nets that people throw to catch us.

So who is Jesus? For me, he's the central character in the greatest story ever told. It's a story about a gradually realizing kingdom that lies inside of us.

For I suspect the next world will more plainly be a going on with this than most people think—only it will be much better for some, and much worse for others, as the Lord has taught us in the parable of the rich man and the beggar.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

The principal difference between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

evidently sown while the bishops slept (Mt 13:25).

allegory (which is an extended metaphor or image),

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

A good example is the best sermon.

My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once.

Sunday school stories are just another type of superhero comic. Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal.

Oh, and the camel. Was it a camel that could pass through the eye of a needle more easily than a rich man? Or a coarse piece of yarn? The Hebrew words are the same, but which one did they mean? If it's a camel, the rich man might as well not even try. But if it's the yarn, he might well succeed with a lot of effort, you see?

In other words, the servants may not know the difference between wheat and weeds. The servants are told that the decision will be made at the harvest.