#parable

Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter. the Tai Chi instructor ↗

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#grief #parables #sorrow #tai-chi #life

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. ↗

— Simone Weil

#god #invented #life #life is a #parable

To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message. ↗

— Chester Elijah Branch

#parables #screenwriting #storytelling #television #art

By telling stories, Jesus isn’t somehow putting sugar in a spoon to make the medicine go down a bit easier. These stories are the medicine. These stories are an extension and explanation of Jesus’ revolutionary ministry. These stories show us that things are not as they appear. Our tidy, well-packaged ideas about spirituality, faith, and reality shatter when confronted by Christ and the God he represents. ↗

— Ronnie McBrayer

#parables #storytelling #faith

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#government #media #passes #power #raw

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#inner #inseparable #into #man #moves

The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular. ↗

— Richard Rolle

#first #inseparable #insuperable #second #singular