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“Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?”
― Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree

“The best way to respond to Hatred is to trigger Love. The one who Loves is the Greatest”
― Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

“Jesus taught in parables for a reason.”
― Stuart Connelly

“Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter.”
― Lynne Sharon Schwartz, The Fatigue Artist

“The vibrations he felt in his sleep had nothing to do with his soul easing out of his body as he dreamily thought; they came solely from the weight and motion of the freight train rolling north to deliver fuel, furniture and other items having no relevance to Elijah’s life or his dreaming. On the metal rail his arm itched like a nose with a feeling that something bad was about to happen. In another life the sound of the train would have been reminiscent of certain songs by Muddy Waters or even Bruce Springsteen but not in this one. In this life the sound stabbed viciously against the night exactly like a human being demonstrating flawless disrespect for the life of another human being.
--from short story ELIJAH’S SKIN”
― Author-Poet Aberjhani, I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

“He asked me several things, but I couldn't answer, indeed I didn't even understand his questions. So I said: "Perhaps you are sorry now that you invited me, so I'd better go," and I was about to get up. But he stretched his hand out over the table and pressed me down. "Stay," he said, "that was only a test. He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.”
― Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes

“God’s Word is the wind beneath the wings of faith.”
― Dami Olu, When God Speaks in Parables (Volume 1): Understanding Jesusâ€� Parables on Obedience, Faith, and Holiness (When God Speaks in Parables

“While you think nothing is happening, the unseen seed is quietly pushing against the might
of the soil resting on it.”
― Dami Olu, When God Speaks in Parables (Volume 1): Understanding Jesusâ€� Parables on Obedience, Faith, and Holiness (When God Speaks in Parables

“Idleness may demand nothing of you, but that is because he pays nothing in return. He makes you sit down quietly beside him while you both watch your life pass you by.”
― Dami Olu, When God Speaks in Parables (Volume 2): Understanding Jesusâ€� Parables on Stewardship, Humility, and Prayer (When God Speaks in Parables

“Make the most of the hour(s) allotted to you. Remember, any hour spent brooding over lost hours is another lost hour.”
― Dami Olu, When God Speaks in Parables (Volume 2): Understanding Jesusâ€� Parables on Stewardship, Humility, and Prayer (When God Speaks in Parables

“Placing the demands of a transformed life on an untransformed soul would end in disaster. It is like trying to enforce sailing rules on a truck on dry land.”
― Dami Olu, When God Speaks in Parables (Volume 2): Understanding Jesusâ€� Parables on Stewardship, Humility, and Prayer (When God Speaks in Parables

“When it comes to kingdom business, it is not the talent you have that counts; it is the talent you count that counts.”
― Dami Olu, When God Speaks in Parables (Volume 2): Understanding Jesusâ€� Parables on Stewardship, Humility, and Prayer (When God Speaks in Parables

“Talents can be likened to oxen, which if not yoked properly may pull one apart.”
― Dami Olu, When God Speaks in Parables (Volume 2): Understanding Jesusâ€� Parables on Stewardship, Humility, and Prayer (When God Speaks in Parables

“The things you often complain about may be
subtle guides to what God has equipped you with the ability to fix.”
― Dami Olu

“It is more accurate to judge the state of our
heart by looking at our historic spending rather than at our proposed spending.”
― Dami Olu, When God Speaks in Parables (Volume 3): Understanding Jesusâ€� Parables on Forgiveness, Greed, and Wisdom (When God Speaks in Parables

“Heaven is prepared for believers who have
placed the gold of Mammon underneath their feet, not around their necks.”
― Dami Olu, When God Speaks in Parables (Volume 3): Understanding Jesusâ€� Parables on Forgiveness, Greed, and Wisdom (When God Speaks in Parables

“We tend to dread poverty when in wealth
than when we are poor. We do not want to go back to that life. So, the more we have, the more we want to store up.”
― Dami Olu, When God Speaks in Parables (Volume 3): Understanding Jesusâ€� Parables on Forgiveness, Greed, and Wisdom (When God Speaks in Parables

“Mammon is the hump that prevents the camel from passing through the eye of the needle.”
― Dami Olu, When God Speaks in Parables (Volume 3): Understanding Jesusâ€� Parables on Forgiveness, Greed, and Wisdom (When God Speaks in Parables

“Our worth is not determined by our current state but by the immutable truth that we bear the image and likeness of God.”
― Dami Olu, When God Speaks in Parables (Volume 3): Understanding Jesusâ€� Parables on Forgiveness, Greed, and Wisdom (When God Speaks in Parables

“If from the prodigal son, we learned how to
repent, from the father, we learn how to forgive. Long before the offender came to his senses, forgiveness was already waiting.”
― Dami Olu, When God Speaks in Parables (Volume 3): Understanding Jesusâ€� Parables on Forgiveness, Greed, and Wisdom (When God Speaks in Parables

“The Cross is where the flesh goes to die. Its hands can no longer reach for what it desires because they have been nailed to the Cross.”
― Dami Olu, When God Speaks in Parables (Volume 3): Understanding Jesusâ€� Parables on Forgiveness, Greed, and Wisdom (When God Speaks in Parables

“Chain! Chain you! What! Run you not, then,
just where you please, and when?�
“Not always, sir; but what of that?�
“Enough for me, to spoil your fat!
It ought to be a precious price
which could to servile chains entice;
for me, I’ll shun them while I’ve wit.�
So ran Sir Wolf, and runneth yet.”
― Jean de la Fontaine, Le loup dans les fables - La Fontaine - 2

“And perhaps he had made no mistake at all, his name really was called, it having been the teacher's intention to make the rewarding of the best student at the same time a punishment for the worst one.”
― Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes

“If they could and if they dared, they would long ago have enticed the animal to come yet closer to them, so that they might be more frightened than ever. But in reality the animal is not at all eager to approach them, as long as it is left alone it takes just as little notice of them as of the men, and probably what it would like best would be to remain in the hiding place where it lives in the periods between the services, evidently in some hole in the wall that we have not yet discovered.”
― Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes

“Poseidon sat at his desk, doing figures. The administration of all the waters gave him endless work. [...] It cannot be said that he enjoyed his work; he did it only because it had been assigned to him; in fact, he had already filed many petitions for--as he put it--more cheerful work, but every time the offer of something different was made to him it turned out that nothing suited him quite as well as his present position.”
― Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes

“I ran past the first watchman. Then I was horrified, ran back and said to the watchman: "I ran through here while you were looking the other way." The watchman gazed ahead of him and said nothing. "I suppose I really oughtn't to have done it," I said. The watchman still said nothing. "Does your silence indicate permission to pass?”
― Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes

“If you nor sabi ouseye you comot, you nor go sabi ouseye you dey go" If you don't know where you come from, you won't know where you are going...”
― Sierra Leonean/Krio Parable

“Fu or yeh nor ru." There is nothing meaningless in this world or everything happens for a reason.”
― Haja Fatmatta R. Kanu