Quotes About Jesus Parables

#1. The symbolism in Jesus' parables is never thickly layered, and rarely even multidimensional.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#2. I understood that without English I would never get far, so my dream was to become a receptionist, and so I started to learn English from watching 'Sesame Street.'

Anchee Min

#3. Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.

Brian D. McLaren

#4. For me, certain signifiers fit you, and not others. For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the secret hero and asshole of the Cosmos.

Walker Percy

#5. I think you often say more by saying less. And interestingly enough, I mean, Jesus really set the standard. I mean, he could say more with fewer words than anybody. Most of the parables were less than 250 words. And, boy, did he have some one-liners just packed with truth.

Mark Batterson

#6. I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not possible to reach the hearts of the congregants without a bit of poetry and storytelling.

Uwem Akpan

#7. The way some people read the parables reminds me of Aesop's Fables. And the way others read them reminds me of the way some discern clue after perplexing clue in their Beatle albums as evidence for a cover-up of Paul's having died in a car accident.

Jared C. Wilson

#8. Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.

Philip Yancey

#9. What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity.

Ron Davies

#10. From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.

Tullian Tchividjian

#11. The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?

Lucian

#12. Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.

Cathleen Falsani

#13. Jesus's parables and the remarkable lives of Moses and Gideon reveal that God chose imperfect, sometimes flawed individuals to do marvelous works to His glory.

Teresa Hampton

#14. In function, Jesus's aphorisms are very much like his parables - provocative and invitational forms of speech. They provoke thought, lead people to reconsider their taken-for-granted assumptions, and invite them to see life differently.

Marcus J. Borg

#15. Throughout the parables the paradoxical teachings continue: Give to receive. Die to live. Lose to win.

Amos Smith

#16. The honest to God truth is that I'm mad at myself. I should've known better.

Miranda Kenneally

#17. Peruse all the sermons of Jesus and you will be sure to find parables, and sometimes allegory. What you will always find, however, is something of keeping our hearts in order.

Jerome Strong

#18. Jesus spoke in parables not only to disclose truth but also to disclose the heart of the listener, to see how much that listener wanted to pursue the truth. - Ravi Zacharias, "Reaching the Happy Thinking Pagan

Richard P. Hansen

#19. Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.

Camille Paglia

#20. In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely.

George Sweeting

#21. Your thoughts and beliefs are the single most important indicator of your state of health. That is amazingly good

Christiane Northrup

#22. 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 Capon

#23. George W. Bush spoke to the camera, his face so decisively earnest that it was clear he was lying, his button eyes lit up with amateurish subterfuge. Only truly great men can be adept at shameless lying, Joshua thought. This dude was straining to the point of snapping.

Aleksandar Hemon

#24. Jesus taught in parables for a reason.

Stuart Connelly

#25. I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.

Frederick Buechner

#26. 'A Face in the Crowd' is Elia Kazan's forgotten movie.

Peyton Reed

#27. It's not sticky unless it touches itself.

Anne Burrell