When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
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.
The Ploughmen is part inspired fever-dream, part adventure story, a lyric parable of not just goodand evil but of the vast and beautiful and often lonely country in-between. Kim Zupan is a wonder.
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.
Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?
Jesus disclosed that God is compassionate. Jesus spoke of God that way: "Be compassionate, as God is compassionate. " Compassion is the primary quality of the central figures in two of his most famous parables: the father in the parable of the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan. And Jesus himself, as a manifestation of the sacred, is often spoken of as embodying compassion.
Jesus told parables. When he wanted to say something really profound about God, he went into parable. I don't find it surprising then that when earliest Christianity wanted to say something profound about Jesus, they went into parable too. That doesn't mean everything is a parable. When it says Jesus was in Nazareth I don't think that's a parable, I think Jesus was in Nazareth. When it talks about Jesus walking on the water, I don't think that's the point at all, I think the point is that the church without Jesus sinks.
In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.
Oh, I get it," I said. "It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat.
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
Earthly regeneration is a parable, but just alone a parable of the things to come.
No man can prophesy with another's parable.
whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.
On every parable you ride to every truth.
Christ , in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.
And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.
The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.
Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made.
