Quotes About Parable

There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be the story in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object preventing us from seeing the truth of what is really going on beneath the surface of our attention, what will most deeply affect people's lives in time.

You remember the old parable about the holy prophet who got thrown into the lions' den. I felt like a lone lion in a den of prophets.

If by worshipping stones one can find God, I shall worship a mountain. If by immersion in the water salvation be attained, the frogs who bathe continually would attain it. As the frogs, so are these men, again and again fall into the womb.

Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.

His life had become a pathetic parable of alienation, a self-imposed banishment. Being alone made him feel simultaneously liberated and isolated.

Tell the truth, but understand that it is not necessarily what happened," is one of the things she told him. "Every good story is a parable," is another.

Unlike a fairy tale, the parable provides no happy ending. Instead, it leaves us face to face with one of life's hardest spiritual choices: to trust or not to trust in God's all-forgiving love.

The parable that Rembrandt painted might well be called "The Parable of the Lost Sons." Not only did the younger son, who left home to look for freedom and happiness in a distant country, get lost, but the one who stayed home also became a lost man. Exteriorly he did all the things a good son is supposed to do, but, interiorly, he wandered away from his father. He did his duty, worked hard every day, and fulfilled all his obligations but became increasingly unhappy and unfree.

'One Minute Mentoring' is written in the parable style Spencer Johnson and I popularized in 'The One Minute Manager.' It's an entertaining story about the mentorship between a young salesperson, Josh, and a seasoned executive named Diane. As the characters learn about mentoring, so does the reader.

the church has always been a mixed multitude of wheat and tares which grow up together and cannot be separated until the last day (Matt. 13:36

Jesus said that it is as difficult for a wealthy person to enter the Kingdom of God as it is for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

The message implicit in the account of the lepers coordinates with the one already made clear in the preceding parable: what we do for God cannot make God our debtor, and should never be done primarily for our gain. For if we are serving God primarily for our personal gain, then whom are we really serving? Only self.

Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.

When you allegorize, you're gonna get everybody saved somehow.

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.

I decided to forgive you after reading The Little Flowers of Saint Francis," María began. "You remember the wolf I talked about? Well, he was a monster who terrorized everybody until Saint Francis gave him a talking-to. He was sweet as a lamb and never ate anything but vegetables after that." "I didn't know wolves could digest vegetables," said Matt, who had studied biology. "That's not the point.

Una leyenda es un pequeña mentira pergeñada para explicar una verdad universal.

Una leyenda es una mentira pergeñada para explicar una verdad universal.

I thought of the parable of the prodigal son. We had made merry for the beloved child's return too - but what happens when the beloved child doesn't say she's sorry? The parable doesn't talk about that. Jesus figures of course you're sorry. Jesus, I thought, you blew it. Not everybody is sorry.

man's lesson is another man's tale, but often, a man's tale can be another's lesson.

London the secular city instructs him: turn any corner and he can find himself inside a parable.

Slothrop's Progress: London the secular city instructs him: turn any corner and he can find himself inside a parable.

In the Parable of the Great Banquet, many of those who failed to share the joy of the feast were ordinary people who were simply too busy with their future-oriented life. As the invitation came, they ignored it and went off to tend their everyday business. Like most people, they felt that it is more important to make a living than to go to a feast and make merry. In a word, they are too "serious.

When asked, "Who is my neighbor?" Jesus in effect does not say, "Let me give you three Hebrew roots on the word neighbor." What he does say is, "A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. . . .