Quotes about Metaphor

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

Never change horses in midstream.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.