Quotes about Illustration

Then He asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God? With what parable shall we present it?

Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it?

Jesus spoke to them using this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.

It is important to understand that Paul is not just using Abraham as an illustration of the gospel or of his teaching about justification by grace through faith. No, Abraham is the beginning of the gospel.

shows how fruitful analogies can be—not in proving points but in illustrating them, showing spiritual truths by means of material images.

What people need is not a motto to say, but a model to see. THE

Jesus also used this illustration: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like the yeast a woman used in making bread. Even though she put only a little yeast in three measures of flour, it permeated every part of the dough" (Matthew 13:33 NLT). Yeast gets into the dough and slowly works its way through the entire batch. The promise is this: the goodness of Jesus will work its way through your entire being. Jesus is the yeast

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Human marriage is only an illustration of our union with Christ. God ordained marriage to help us understand what it means to be in relationship with him.

In every concrete situation we have to ask ourselves, not "Did I do the specific things in Jesus' illustrations?" but "Am I being the kind of person Jesus' illustrations are illustrations of?

This is seen in his well-known use of the parable—which, from its origin in the Greek word paraballein, literally means to throw one thing down alongside another. Parables are not just pretty stories that are easy to remember; rather, they help us understand something difficult by comparing it to, placing it beside, something with which we are very familiar, and always something concrete, specific.