Parables Quotes

“judgment, as it is portrayed in the parables of Jesus (not to mention the rest of the New Testament) never comes until after acceptance: grace remains forever the sovereign consideration. The difference between the blessed and the cursed is one thing and one thing only: the blessed accept their acceptance and the cursed reject it; but the acceptance is already in place for both groups before either does anything about it.”

“The way some people read the parables reminds me of Aesop's Fables. And the way others read them reminds me of the way some discern clue after perplexing clue in their Beatle albums as evidence for a cover-up of Paul's having died in a car accident.”

“he who speaks parables knows and understands the real meaning of parables better”

“Jesus taught in parables for a reason.”

“With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.”

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

“Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.”

“To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.”

“Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter.the Tai Chi instructor”