Top 29 Quotes About The Parables Of Jesus

#1. Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree.

George Washington

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

John F. MacArthur Jr.

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#3. 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

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#4. Jesus taught in parables for a reason.

Stuart Connelly

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#5. Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.

David

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#6. More is happening out there than we are aware of.
It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Edward Gorey

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#7. I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either.

Donald Trump

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#8. 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

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

George Sweeting

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#10. I like both movies and TV, so I don't have some big grand plan.

Molly Shannon

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

Camille Paglia

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#12. 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

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#13. There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

Miguel De Cervantes

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#14. Being in bliss is like being in love. Being in love is like being in bliss. You are floating in the clouds. You are perceiving love wherever you go.

Miguel Ruiz

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#15. 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

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#16. I don't have to be a 'gazillionaire;' what's important to me is to just being able to work.

Katharine McPhee

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

Amos Smith

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#18. 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

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#19. 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

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

Cathleen Falsani

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#21. I'll never forget my first fur. It was a modest little stole. Modest? People thought I was wearing anchovies.

Phyllis Diller

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#22. There are no random acts.

Mitch Albom

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#23. I could not recall the last time I had been so flagrantly insulted.

Don't make enemies, I told myself.
Swallow your pride.
Hold your tongue.

But the fact was, I had real difficulty with those particular virtues.

Jen Crane

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

Tullian Tchividjian

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#25. 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

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#26. 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

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#27. 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

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#28. 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

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#29. 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

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