He sets forth to you a parable relating to yourselves Have you among those whom your right hands possess partners in what We have given you for sustenance, so that with respect to it you are alike you fear them as you fear each other Thus do We make the communications distinct for a people who understand.
Quotes about parable (16 Quotes)
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.
I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.
Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal however, if the melody has not reached its end, it would also not have reached its goal. A parable.
Christmas parable The stable boy had finished work that day, Had filled the manger with new, fragrant hay, Had fed the beasts, and usually would sleep Snuggled for warmth among the placid sheep But not tonight, for hed conceived a plan To join a merchants camel caravan And travel to far places. He had heard Exciting tales of cities which had stirred His longing for adventure. He would go Where things were happening his friends would know Why he had gone. He often said to them, 'Oh, nothing happens here in bethlehem.' He looked back once, before they traveled far, And wondered vaguely why that brilliant star.
Remember the parable of talentsthe story of the three servants who had received talents, five, two and one respectively When their master returned they all gave account of their stewardship. The first two had doubled their capital. Each of them said so in sixteen words and their work was pronounced, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' The third servant had accomplished absolutely nothing but his report took forty-three words, three times as long as each of the other two reports. Dont be like servant number three. Make good Dont explain your failure Do the thing you are expected to do Then you wont have to explain why you didn't, couldnt, wouldnt, or shouldnt. Efficiency That is the soul-satisfying joy of making good. Doing your work just a little better than anyone else gives you the margin of success. Making good required no explanation. Failure required forty-three words.
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the Sower, of the need for our loving, mortified reception and cultivation in our hearts and souls of the seeds and roots of the supernatural gifts and virtues necessary for progress in the asceticalmystical ascent of our souls toward union with God and with the divine will for Creation and Kingdom.
Parable of the Lost Sheep And he spake this parable unto them, saying, What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
And if We had pleased, We would certainly have exalted him thereby but he clung to the earth and followed his low desire, so his parable is as the parable of the dog if you attack him he lolls out his tongue and if you leave him alone he lolls out his tongue this is the parable of the people who reject Our communications therefore relate the narrative that they may reflect.
While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything.
The basic assumption which all expositors seem anxious to secure is certainly right, namely, that the ultimate purpose of a parable is to help and not hinder the apprehension of the truth. But beyond this, we may say that it belongs to the very nature of revelation that the capacity to receive it depends upon the prior surrender and obedience of the will.... The disciples had so surrendered to the sovereignty of Jesus and could therefore know. If temporarily a parable concealed the truths of the kingdom from the outsider on the intellectual plane, it was only in order that moral conviction might first be secured with a view to intellectual enlightenment afterwards. There are many who, through intellectual pride, would like to have it otherwise, but it cannot be.
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.
Parable of the Lost Piece of Silver Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me for I have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
Twas a sheep, not a lamb, that strayed away, In the parable Jesus told A grown-up sheep that had gone astray, From the ninety and none in the fold. Out on the hillside, out in the cold, 'Twas a sheep the good shepherd sought, And back to the flock safe in the fold 'Twas a sheep the good shepherd brought. And why for the sheep should we earnestly long, And a earnestly hope and pray, Because there is danger, if they go astray. For the lambs will follow the sheep, you know, Wherever the sheep may stray When the sheep go wrong, it will not be long Till the lambs are as wrong as they. And so with the sheep we earnestly plead, For the sake of the lambs today If the lambs are lost what a terrible cost Some sheep will have to pay.