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  • He was known for anecdotes, and parables from Syria, quotations from the Qur'an, stories from his travels around the world.†   (source)
  • The expulsion from Eden to the bitter lands to the east is a parable for the massive deportation of Israelites to Assyria following Sargon il's victory.†   (source)
  • It is a fast food parable about how the industry started and where it can lead.†   (source)
  • The Gospel of Mark tells us, 'Unto you is given to know the mystery …. but it will be told in parable.'†   (source)
  • Sophie knew the parable of how Jesus turned water into wine, but she had never taken it literally.†   (source)
  • I just can't take any more of your parables and diddering around.†   (source)
  • Others were given the parable of the Good Samaritan.†   (source)
  • My father must have seen in this parable the accessibility of the origins of things, but I see nothing of the kind.†   (source)
  • But we think of Neth and remember a Hawaiian parable taught to us by Naka Nathaniel, the former Times videographer, himself a Hawaiian: A man goes out on the beach and sees that it is covered with starfish that have washed up in the tide.†   (source)
  • Read Luke 15:11 (parable of the lost son).†   (source)
  • My father loved to read parables aloud, and I had to listen to every word.†   (source)
  • I reinterpreted Don Quixote as a modern urban parable and made Sancho the hero.†   (source)
  • He spoke in Asiatic parables that could not always be understood.†   (source)
  • You have heard it, and it-this true story of rich implication, this living parable of proven glory and humble nobility-and it, as I say, has made you free.†   (source)
  • The basic lesson of the parable for me is that if God gave us specific talents (abilities), He wants us to maximize our talents and not bury or waste them.†   (source)
  • Therefore speak I to them in parables: Because they seeing, see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.†   (source)
  • It was like the Parable of the Lost Son in the Bible.†   (source)
  • The Confucian parables warn of it.†   (source)
  • I was slightly stunned by this story, for I was not prepared to have an unlettered and untutored Eskimo give me a lecture, even in parable form, illustrating the theory of survival of the fittest through the agency of natural selection.†   (source)
  • He saw it all as a parable of power, its feeding, growth and systematic abuse, though he didn't go into it that far with her, that particular night.†   (source)
  • Like the lost lamb in the parable, I love her all the more.†   (source)
  • In the parable of Yamacraw there was a time when the black people supported themselves well, worked hard, and lived up to the sacred tenets laid down in the Protestant ethic.†   (source)
  • Cheerfully, he looked into the rushing river, never before he had like a water so well as this one, never before he had perceived the voice and the parable of the moving water thus strongly and beautifully.†   (source)
  • Dust off some of your old parables.†   (source)
  • But for me the most important thing is that Christ speaks in parables taken from life, that He explains the truth in terms of everyday reality.†   (source)
  • I will open my mouth in a parable and utter dark sayings of old.†   (source)
  • It's not generally in the way of parables, which Carol is, to treat anomalies.†   (source)
  • I tried to think of some other work animal for my parable, but the Congo has none.†   (source)
  • The Gospel of John forewarns: 'I will speak to you in parable …. and use dark sayings.'†   (source)
  • It's quite easy to move from there to the parable of the mustard seed.†   (source)
  • Her way of telling a parable is different from my father's.†   (source)
  • Seest thou, the passing of the ages is like a parable And in its passing it may burst to flame.†   (source)
  • A parable of the soul, as his Latin teacher had pointed out so sententiously, Amina being a crude anagram for anima.†   (source)
  • The boy was brought before the chief and asked if he knew us and if he had ever heard us speak parables in the white man's Ianguage.†   (source)
  • You may be sure that all travellers, magicians, strangers or beggars who find themselves in the vicinity of the People of Desolation take care to provide themselves with a stash of obscure parables — cloud words, they're called, or knotted silk — enigmatic enough to be useful on various occasions, as circumstances may dictate.†   (source)
  • Her aunt was silent, and Jean Louise continued: "I was real impressed with the parable where since the dawn of history the rulers of the world have always been white, except Genghis Khan or somebody—the author was real fair about that—and he made a killin' point about even the Pharaohs were white and their subjects were either black or Jews—"†   (source)
  • According to the interpretation of Hvidberg and, later, Wyatt, Adam in his garden is a parable for the king in his sanctuary, specifically King Hosea, who ruled the northern kingdom until it was conquered by Sargon II in 722 B.C. That's the conquest you mentioned earlier-the one that drove the deuteronomists southward toward Jerusalem?'†   (source)
  • Yes, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), a nearly perfect literary parable, so clear, with symbols so available, that the Christian imagery is accessible to even beginning readers.†   (source)
  • At the far end of the spectrum, we might be reminded of Plato, who in the "Parable of the Cave" section of The Republic (fifth century B.c.) gives us an image of the cave as consciousness and perception.†   (source)
  • Langdon was no stranger to the theory that the Scriptures contained a hidden layer of meaning, a concealed message that was veiled in allegory, symbolism, and parable.†   (source)
  • …have walked on water often portrayed with arms outstretched known to have spent time alone in the wilderness believed to have had a confrontation with the devil, possibly tempted last seen in the company of thieves creator of many aphorisms and parables buried, but arose on the third dayhad disciples, twelve at first, although not all equally devoted very forgiving came to redeem an unworthy world You may not subscribe to this list, may find it too glib, but if you want to read like a…†   (source)
  • When you start to understand the cryptic parables in the Bible, Robert, you realize it's a study of the human mind."†   (source)
  • "We all understood Tata Ndu's parable.†   (source)
  • God was testing him like Job, he declared, and the point of that particular parable was that Job had done no wrong to begin with.†   (source)
  • "And if you have any doubts," Peter added, "Corinthians overtly tells us that the parables have two layers of meaning: 'milk for babes and meat for men'—where the milk is a watered-down reading for infantile minds, and the meat is the true message, accessible only to mature minds."†   (source)
  • But as luck would have it, he'd preached the parable of Daniel and the lions' den just a few days before, so naturally now they are knocking each other over to get to church on Sunday.†   (source)
  • For once he had no words to instruct our minds and improve our souls, no parable that would turn Ruth May's death by snakebite into a lesson on the Glory of God.†   (source)
  • Unable to work either the dishwater or Methuselah's long memory into a proper ending for his parable, Our Father merely looked at us all and heaved the great sigh of the put-upon male.†   (source)
  • I repeated to Nelson that, however he might interpret the parable of Job, our family doesn't believe in witch-doctor ngangas and evil-eye fetishes and the nkisis and gree-grees people wear around their necks, to ward off curses and the like.†   (source)
  • Father ignored this parable.†   (source)
  • Christians could invent and believe in the parable of the loaves and fishes, for their farmers can trust in abundance, and ship it to burgeoning cities, where people can afford to spend their lives hardly noticing, or caring, that a seed produces a plant.†   (source)
  • As for this truck-and-fanbelt story, the Reverend loved to speak in parables, and we could surely spot one coming.†   (source)
  • He paced, paused, spoke, and paced behind his palm-leaf altar, giving every impression he was inventing his Biblical parables on the spot.†   (source)
  • His punishment is the Word, and his deficiencies are failures of words—as when he grows impatient with translation and strikes out precariously on his own, telling parables in his wildly half-baked Kikongo.†   (source)
  • Indeed, on several occasions, a seminary student going to give his talk on the parable of the Good Samaritan literally stepped over the victim as he hurried on his way.†   (source)
  • He also stole away at night to the bar in San Lucas, where he met with certain union leaders who had a passion for fixing the world's troubles between sips of beer, or with the huge, magnificent Father Jose Dulce Maria, a Spanish priest with a head full of revolutionary ideas that had earned him the honor of being relegated by the Society of Jesus to that hidden corner of the world, although that didn't keep him from transforming biblical parables into Socialist propaganda.†   (source)
  • In the parable, Jesus told how a man's son brazenly asked for his inheritance while his father was still alive, a rebellious and selfish thing to do.†   (source)
  • After that it was a cafeteria-style dinner, quiet time for personal devotions, and lights out at 10:00 p.m. That first week at Teen Challenge, Adam heard the parable of the prodigal son.†   (source)
  • They almost all say that the students who entered the ministry to help people and those reminded of the importance of compassion by having just read the parable of the Good Samaritan will be the most likely to stop.†   (source)
  • The sinner, which I am and which you are, is a sinner, but in times to come he will be Brahma again, he will reach the Nirvana, will be Buddha—and now see: these 'times to come' are a deception, are only a parable!†   (source)
  • My youth sang the glory of books, the psalms of travel, of new faces, of the universe of Disney animation, of Popsicle sticks and county fairs, of parables of war spoken by a. flight-jacketed father, of parables of love and Jesus sung by a blue-eyed mother, a renegade Baptist, a converted Catholic, a soldier of the Lord.†   (source)
  • I have listened too often to his sermons, to his subtle parables, to believe that he would do a thing such as this without a purpose.†   (source)
  • The answers following the questions, which now came from all of them, grew longer and longer, for they became parables, examples, allegories.†   (source)
  • The parable of Prince Five-weapons illustrates this theme.†   (source)
  • To me, that is the situation in a parable.†   (source)
  • Literature must consist of parables, stripped of detail and almost independent of language.†   (source)
  • Well, I want to tell you another parable now.†   (source)
  • He sat down resignedly upon the most comfortable part of the floor, perceiving that he was in for something like the parable of the looking-glass.†   (source)
  • The Garden of Forking Paths is an enormous riddle, or parable, whose theme is time; this recondite cause prohibits its mention.†   (source)
  • He read the text, or the parable of the day's study, commented on it with Caesarean dryness and concision, and surrendered the service to his assistant, a shaven, spectacled, Wilsonian-looking man, also Scotch, who smiled with cold affection at them over his high shiny collar, and led them through the verses of a hymn, heaving up his arms and leering at them encouragingly, as they approached the chorus.†   (source)
  • If this story is a parable, perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it.†   (source)
  • LARRY—(grins with sardonic appreciation) Be God, Joe, you've got all the beauty of human nature and the practical wisdom of the world in that little parable.†   (source)
  • They love him because they— women, I mean—are like the bees in Samson's parable in the Bible: they like to build their honeycomb in the carcass of a dead lion.†   (source)
  • The Utopian play by Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, produced in 1921, converted the theme into a modern socio-biological parable.†   (source)
  • The parables–this is where Tolstoy differs from the average vulgar puritan–must themselves be works of art, but pleasure and curiosity must be excluded from them.†   (source)
  • A minor parable at most.†   (source)
  • I suppose you wouldn't remember about the parables I used to tell you, when I was trying to explain things?†   (source)
  • Dear lady: a parable must not be taken literally.†   (source)
  • He thought of Cronshaw's parable of the Persian carpet.†   (source)
  • There is the great gulf of the parable between the two places.†   (source)
  • The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.†   (source)
  • I like the parables in the Bible better than anything,' said Franz.†   (source)
  • The Roman studied him; then replied, "Why not the truth in a jest as well as a parable?†   (source)
  • His courtesy of manner rang a little false and Stephen looked at the English convert with the same eyes as the elder brother in the parable may have turned on the prodigal.†   (source)
  • He waited a moment, as though seeking where to begin, and then said: "Hump, do you know the parable of the sower who went forth to sow?†   (source)
  • For, though nobody knew with the least precision what Mr Merdle's business was, except that it was to coin money, these were the terms in which everybody defined it on all ceremonious occasions, and which it was the last new polite reading of the parable of the camel and the needle's eye to accept without inquiry.†   (source)
  • Few can translate the picture-parable; there are not twenty in all the world who can draw it surely without a copy: of those who can both draw and expound are but three.†   (source)
  • Such a one, having left the earth, sees Abraham's bosom and talks with Abraham as we are told in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, and beholds heaven and can go up to the Lord.†   (source)
  • These things are a parable.†   (source)
  • …realities, will turn to shadowy phantoms and vanish of their own accord; but if we go no deeper than the intellect, and strive, with merely that feeble instrument, to discern and rectify what is wrong, our whole accomplishment will be a dream, so unsubstantial that it matters little whether the bonfire, which I have so faithfully described, were what we choose to call a real event and a flame that would scorch the finger, or only a phosphoric radiance and a parable of my own brain.†   (source)
  • But here—if we suppose this interview betwixt Mistress Hibbins and Hester Prynne to be authentic, and not a parable—was already an illustration of the young minister's argument against sundering the relation of a fallen mother to the offspring of her frailty.†   (source)
  • …and by the physical and moral conditions of the creature, my dear hearers," he earnestly concluded "it can excite no surprise that creeds so very different in their tendencies should grow out of a religion revealed, it is true, but whose revelations are obscured by the lapse of ages, and whose doctrines were, after the fashion of the countries in which they were first promulgated, frequently delivered in parables, and in a language abounding in metaphors and loaded with figures.†   (source)
  • The count, who perceived that M. and Madame de Villefort were beginning to speak in parables, appeared to pay no attention to the conversation, and feigned to be busily engaged in watching Edward, who was mischievously pouring some ink into the bird's water-glass.†   (source)
  • I know that we ought all to have solemn thoughts on these occasions, but I see no use in speaking in parables.†   (source)
  • THE MINISTER'S BLACK VEIL A PARABLE[1] [1] Another clergyman in New England, Mr. Joseph Moody, of York, Maine, who died about eighty years since, made himself remarkable by the same eccentricity that is here related of the Reverend Mr. Hooper.†   (source)
  • Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he invented parables, going directly to the point, with few phrases and many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus Christ.†   (source)
  • A parable to a parable-loving people, it taught what the Christ had so often asserted—that his mission was not political.†   (source)
  • …muscle and moral nerve of the critics has been developed in the struggle with modern problem plays, the pettish luxuriousness of the clever ones, and the sulky sense of disadvantaged weakness in the sentimental ones, will clear away; and it will be seen that only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.†   (source)
  • Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes, but the soul is light; where it is, is day; where it was, is night; and history is an impertinence and an injury, if it be anything more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.†   (source)
  • It was the intention of this parable, which describes the life of one man who tried to separate himself from his country, to show how terrible was his mistake.†   (source)
  • She hesitated an instant, and then summoned sufficient spirit to say, decidedly— "If you wish to speak in parables, Doctor Battius, you must find another listener.†   (source)
  • I have myself — I tell it you without parable — been a worldly, dissipated, restless man; and I believe I have found the instrument for my cure in — " He paused: the birds went on carolling, the leaves lightly rustling.†   (source)
  • …to observe that—since there never was a true story which could not be told in parables, where you might put a monkey for a margrave, and vice versa—whatever has been or is to be narrated by me about low people, may be ennobled by being considered a parable; so that if any bad habits and ugly consequences are brought into view, the reader may have the relief of regarding them as not more than figuratively ungenteel, and may feel himself virtually in company with persons of some style.†   (source)
  • It does not need now that a man should curse the United States, as Philip Nolan did, or that he should say he hopes he may never hear her name again, to make it desirable for him to consider the lessons which are involved in the parable of his life.†   (source)
  • Especially did his shade-loving muse hover over and interpret the lower parts of nature; he showed the mysterious bond that allies moral evil to the foul material forms, and has given in epical parables a theory of insanity, of beasts, of unclean and fearful things.†   (source)
  • Don't forget either the parables of Our Lord, choose especially from the Gospel of St. Luke (that is what I did), and then from the Acts of the Apostles the conversion of St. Paul (that you mustn't leave out on any account), and from the Lives of the Saints, for instance, the life of Alexey, the man of God and, greatest of all, the happy martyr and the seer of God, Mary of Egypt—and you will penetrate their hearts with these simple tales.†   (source)
  • "The man is given to speak in parables," muttered the single-minded trapper; "but I conclude there is always some meaning hidden in his words, though it is as hard to find sense in his speeches, as to discover three eagles on the same tree.†   (source)
  • After exhausting life in his efforts for mankind's spiritual good, he had made the manner of his death a parable, in order to impress on his admirers the mighty and mournful lesson, that, in the view of Infinite Purity, we are sinners all alike.†   (source)
  • After singing some hymns and offering heartfelt prayers to the Almighty Giver of all good, I told the children I would relate to them a parable instead of preaching a sermon.†   (source)
  • Not that I wanted beans to eat, for I am by nature a Pythagorean, so far as beans are concerned, whether they mean porridge or voting, and exchanged them for rice; but, perchance, as some must work in fields if only for the sake of tropes and expression, to serve a parable-maker one day.†   (source)
  • 'My dear Elizabeth,' said I, 'this morning we will devote to the service of the Lord, and by means of a parable, I will endeavor to give the children some serious thought; but, without books, or the possibility of any of the usual Sunday occupations, we cannot keep them quiet the whole day; afterward, therefore I shall allow them to pursue any innocent recreation they choose, and in the cool of the evening we will take a walk.'†   (source)
  • It seems an easier and shorter way to dignity, to observe that—since there never was a true story which could not be told in parables, where you might put a monkey for a margrave, and vice versa—whatever has been or is to be narrated by me about low people, may be ennobled by being considered a parable; so that if any bad habits and ugly consequences are brought into view, the reader may have the relief of regarding them as not more than figuratively ungenteel, and may feel himself…†   (source)
  • …like busy husbandmen, with teams and horses and apparently all the implements of farming, such a picture as we see on the first page of the almanac; and as often as I looked out I was reminded of the fable of the lark and the reapers, or the parable of the sower, and the like; and now they are all gone, and in thirty days more, probably, I shall look from the same window on the pure sea-green Walden water there, reflecting the clouds and the trees, and sending up its evaporations in…†   (source)
  • Most were of clear glass, but some had deceptively simple-looking stained-glass parables.†   (source)
  • I call it A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or the Parable of The Plums.†   (source)
  • Accepting the analogy implied in his guest's parable which examples of postexilic eminence did he adduce?†   (source)
  • Did he see only a second coincidence in the second scene narrated to him, described by the narrator as A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or The Parable of the Plums?†   (source)
  • 49:4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.†   (source)
  • Thou shalt never get such a secret from me but by a parable.†   (source)
  • 26:7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.†   (source)
  • 26:9 As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouths of fools.†   (source)
  • I thanked the young priest for expressing so great a concern for us, and desired him to explain the particulars of what he had observed, that according to the parable of Achan, I might remove the accursed thing from among us "Why then, Sir, said he, in the first place, you have four Englishmen, who have taken savage women to their wives, by whom they have several children, though none of them are legally married, as the law of God and man requires; they, I say, Sir, are no less than…†   (source)
  • And the History of Dives and Lazarus, make nothing against this, if wee take it (as it is) for a Parable.†   (source)
  • 27:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 27:2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul; 27:3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; 27:4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.†   (source)
  • Be there *none other manner resemblances* *no other kind of That ye may liken your parables unto, comparison* But if a silly wife be one of tho?†   (source)
  • 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: 78:3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.†   (source)
  • And eke there was a clerk sometime at Rome, A cardinal, that highte Saint Jerome, That made a book against Jovinian, Which book was there; and eke Tertullian, Chrysippus, Trotula, and Heloise, That was an abbess not far from Paris; And eke the Parables* of Solomon, *Proverbs Ovide's Art, <29> and bourdes* many one; *jests And alle these were bound in one volume.†   (source)
  • speaketh of an unclean Spirit, that having gone out of a man, wandreth through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none; and returning into the same man, with seven other spirits worse than himselfe; It is manifestly a Parable, alluding to a man, that after a little endeavour to quit his lusts, is vanquished by the strength of them; and becomes seven times worse than he was.†   (source)
  • 29:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 29:2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; 29:3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; 29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; 29:5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; 29:6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; 29:7 When I went out to the…†   (source)
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