Parable


The Alchemist
The Pearl
The Little Prince
Animal Farm
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
The Old Man and the Sea
Parable
A Christmas Carol
Who Moved My Cheese?
Siddhartha
The Giving Tree
The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
The Metamorphosis
The Pilgrim's Progress
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
John Bevere
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Robert Farrar Capon
Straight theologizing about grace is more, not less, outrageous than parabolic theologizing. The more clearly you make grace sovereign over human life, the more unacceptable become your efforts to harmonize it with life as we know it. The farther you go in expounding grace as the ultimate goodness of God, the deeper you find yourself mired in the manifest badness of God.
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