Parables Quotations

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.

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

No man can prophesy with another's parable.

Oh, I get it," I said. "It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat.

Ack! Parables. I hate parables.

In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.

Earthly regeneration is a parable, but just alone a parable of the things to come.

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

On every parable you ride to every truth.

The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?