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«Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.»
Author: Austin Farrer | About: Christianity, Faith | Keywords: Christian faith, parable
«Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind.»
«Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.»
«He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: fig, fig tree, parable, thereon, vineyard
«Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: / And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.»
«Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: parable, sower
«In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: doleful, lament, parable, spoiled, turning away
«I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: / Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: parable, sayings
«Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, / As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul; / All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; / My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: As god, parable, the Almighty, vexed
«Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.»
Author: Simone Weil (Activist, Mystic, Philosopher) | Keywords: parable

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