If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
Thomas HardyTags: humor morals stories parables
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
Alan MooreTags: on-fiction storytelling parables
The vibrations he felt in his sleep had nothing to do with his soul easing out of his body as he dreamily thought; they came solely from the weight and motion of the freight train rolling north to deliver fuel, furniture and other items having no relevance to Elijah’s life or his dreaming. On the metal rail his arm itched like a nose with a feeling that something bad was about to happen. In another life the sound of the train would have been reminiscent of certain songs by Muddy Waters or even Bruce Springsteen but not in this one. In this life the sound stabbed viciously against the night exactly like a human being demonstrating flawless disrespect for the life of another human being.
--from short story ELIJAH’S SKIN
Tags: metaphysical short-story parables philosophical-inquiry short-fiction
Jesus taught in parables for a reason.
Stuart ConnellySilk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!
C. JoyBell C.Tags: wisdom inspirational strength inspirational-quotes stupidity parable inspirational-life real fake parables silk soft gentle genuine wisdom-quotes delicate strength-of-a-woman stupidity-of-man
Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter.
Lynne Sharon SchwartzTags: sorrow grief bitterness parables tai-chi
To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.
Chester Elijah BranchTags: storytelling television film parables screenwriting
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.
Robert Farrar CaponHe [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.
Frederick BuechnerTags: truth holy comic parables shocking reverent
By telling stories, Jesus isn’t somehow putting sugar in a spoon to make the medicine go down a bit easier. These stories are the medicine. These stories are an extension and explanation of Jesus’ revolutionary ministry. These stories show us that things are not as they appear. Our tidy, well-packaged ideas about spirituality, faith, and reality shatter when confronted by Christ and the God he represents.
Ronnie McBrayerTags: storytelling jesus parables
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