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Parables Quotes

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Simone Weil
Life, Perfect, Parables

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

Giulio Andreotti
Church, Parables, Feels

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

Morton Feldman
Cages, Metaphor, Parables
Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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

Thomas Hardy
Stories, Moral, Parables
Thomas Hardy (2014). “Thomas Hardy: Selected Prose, Volume I”, p.65, Anthem Press

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.

Ray William Johnson
Believe, Parables, Mythology
Twitter post from Apr 14, 2014

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

Paul Althaus
Parables, Regeneration

On every parable you ride to every truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Parables
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.182, Penguin

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

Carl Jung
Dream, Doe, Parables
Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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

Tullian Tchividjian
Jesus, Years, Parables

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

Henry David Thoreau
Dinner, Language, Parables
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Ack! Parables. I hate parables.

Christopher Moore
Hate, I Hate, Parables

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

Christopher Moore
Cute, Parables, Said
Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.364, Hachette UK

No man can prophesy with another's parable.

Anna Julia Cooper
Men, Authenticity, Parables
Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.135, Rowman & Littlefield

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