(30 quotes found)
“Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.”
Camille Paglia
“Jesus was the great storyteller. He made his points by telling parables or stories.”
David Williamson
“If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.”
Dan Barker
“The parable of those who take guardians besides Allah is as the parable of the spider that makes for itself a house; and most surely the frailest of the houses is the spider's house did they but know.”
quran
“This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.”
Bible
“Surely Allah is not ashamed to set forth any parable-- (that of) a gnat or any thing above that; then as for those who believe, they know that it is the truth from their Lord, and as for those who disbelieve, they say: What is it that Allah means by this parable: He causes many to err by it and many He leads aright by it! but He does not cause to err by it (any) except the transgressors, / Who break the covenant of Allah after its confirmation and cut asunder what Allah has ordered to be joined, and make mischief in the land; these it is that are the losers.”
“The parable of those who spend their property in the way of Allah is as the parable of a grain growing seven ears (with) a hundred grains in every ear; and Allah multiplies for whom He pleases; and Allah is Ample-giving, Knowing / (As for) those who spend their property in the way.of Allah, then do not follow up what they have spent with reproach or injury, they shall have their reward from their Lord, and they shall have no fear nor shall they grieve.”
“Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: / And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.”
“The way I see it, it is a fantastic building. I saw it as a parable of how human beings tend to be. On the outside, they look capable and strong but on the inside there's a sadness and darkness.”
Ken Davis
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