Sentences with 'parable'
Example sentences and phrases with the word parable and other words derived from it.
• « The Gospel according to Luke is the only one that tells the parable of Jesus about the prodigal son who left his home and squandered his inheritance, yet was gladly received by his father when he returned home. »
• « The parable of the porcupines by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer may make this notion clearer. »
• « The parable tells that it was winter and the porcupines, each isolated in his own corner, were cold. »
• « Those who, for fear of being hurt, marginalise themselves, exclude themselves from social groups: they are like the porcupines at the beginning of the parable, who feel bad but cannot get close to others. Those who act in this way can come to feel like strangers or foreigners, unable to communicate and to participate in the group. »