Quotes about Parables

Faithfulness is not holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell and taking back enemy territory that belongs to God. I'm afraid we've reduced righteousness to the absence of wrongness, but goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right. Remember the parable of the bags of gold? Breaking even is bad. You've got to ante up everything.

To see apologetics only as technique is an insult to the gospel and to the high importance of what God is saying and doing in Jesus. From the humblest pun to the greatest double entendre of all time—the incarnation—the Bible is full of stories, parables, drama, ploys and jests that serve the ultimate purpose of the gospel and are shaped by the truth and logic of the message of the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus the Christ.

I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,

by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.

It sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in height, with branches turned toward him; yet its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and yielded branches and sent out shoots.

Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, ‘Is he not just telling parables?’”

I spoke through the prophets and multiplied their visions; I gave parables through the prophets.

Such large crowds gathered around Him that He got into a boat and sat down, while all the people stood on the shore.

Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do You speak to the people in parables?”

This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’

‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. So the servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’

Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.