Quotes About Parable

Todo lo que ha ocurrido es sólo una parábola. Lo que es inalcanzable se convierte en suceso. Lo que es indescriptible se ha realizado aquí. Lo eterno-femenino nos permite avanzar.

Parables don't lie, but liars will parable."—Lip-King.

Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude unto thee.

Mark 12:34When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, 'You are not far from the Kingdom of God.

positions (as well as being signless events) is none other than the Lord's parable of the fig tree. This is how you can both

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.

Well, at least this time I get to be a person in the story. The last time you told one of your Russian parables I was a bag of chickens.

One of our sillier Zemblan proverbs says: the lost glove is happy. Promptly

The third kind of soil was weed infested, resulting in a crop that once again looked good for a while but eventually was choked off by what Jesus called the deceitfulness of riches and the desire for other things.

It is not an easy thing for certain men and women to remain hidden. However, they accomplish this in a variety of ways. Remember the story of the Sufi Master who deliberately passed wind to rid himself of students who were not there out of a love of Essence? Many stories such as this have been told.

I can't bear it, Mr. Herriot. He was like a Christian was that pig, just like a Christian.

I can't bear it, Mr. Herriot. He was like a Christian was that pig, just like a Christian.

Jesus Christ walks into a hotel... He hands the innkeeper three nails and he asks... Can you put me up for the night

Thus, our main point to make here is that there is not only a crucially vertical (God-humanity covenant) and eschatological (new exodus) aspect to the enacted parable of the Last Supper, but there is equally a horizontal, new covenant community aspect.

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.

What is the kingdom of God like? . . . It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches." LUKE 13:18–19

Didn't Jesus say something disparaging about casting pearls before swine?

God lets the guilty live right among the good, hurting them all they want; he lets the tares grow amid the corn.

Then he told them another story and it was this story.

The first "young man" symbolizes "saving life and losing it," the second "losing life to save it." At this stage in the story, however, without knowing the end, the episode of the young man represents a mystery. All we know is that everything has gone sour.

Once an old man, spoken of in one of Aesop's fables, believing himself at death's door, called his twelve sons to his bedside and gave to them a bundle of twelve stout sticks, which he asked them all in turn to break, which task they were unable to do. The father, separating the bundle, gave to each a stick which he readily broke. Now, the moral to be deducted from this fable is eminently applicable to us as an organization, and means that in union there is strength.

I've always wanted to work in America because of those brilliant east-coast political movies of the '70s and '80s - great scripts, wonderful performances, gritty urban parable.

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.