Metaphor of Fish

When we pray, we should open our heart to God, like a fish when it sees the wave coming.

Algar Thorold, editor, Readings from Friedrich von Hugel

… the life of God is no more remote from us than the ocean is to the fish that swim in it.

Rufus Jones, A Call to What is Vital

We live in story like fish in the sea. 

John Dominic Crossan,  The Dark Interval: Towards a Theology of Story


All week I had been underwater with the whole world swimming between me and God, like a school of fish.

Thomas Merton,  The Sign of Jonas