128 Quotes About Parables

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.

It is my theory that the greater truths underlying life and death can be best be understood as a parable--that is, as a fiction.

The wise man see's the fool & laughs, yet the fool never know why.

A lower power cannot compass the full understanding of a higher. But to limit one's belief to the bounds of one's own small powers, would be to tie oneself down to the foot of a tree, and deny the existence of its upper branches.

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.

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.

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

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.