Parables Quotes - Page 6

• The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Change, Acceptance

  "Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits".

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• Service is the rent we pay for living.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Helping Others, Pay, Volunteerism

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence?

  Marilynne Robinson

  Reality, Justice, Needs

  FaceBook post by Marilynne Robinson from Feb 14, 2014

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• 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.

  John Updike

  Doors, Age, Events

  John Updike (2012). “Telephone Poles and Other Poems”, p.86, Knopf

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• Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Gratitude, Life Is Good, Reality

  Lewis B. Smedes (2000). “How Can It Be All Right When Everything Is All Wrong?”, Shaw

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