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Quotes About Likeness

For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.
~ David Leavitt
It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.
~ Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Beloved, we are God's children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
~ John the Apostle
It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ.
~ Robert Murray M'Cheyne
We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people--you will be that inevitably--but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God's Son.
~ Alan Redpath
Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.
~ Charles Spurgeon
God made us in His own image so that His image would be shown.
~ John Piper
To have a pure heart, we must submit all thoughts to the authority of Christ. If we are willing to do that, he will change us to be like him.
~ Max Lucado
God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.
~ Thomas Aquinas
As the perfect parent, God suffers emotional pain when his creatures, created in his own image and likeness, rebel against him and do evil instead of good.
~ Roger E. Olson
Human beings are special, of higher dignity and worth than other animals, because they're created in God's own image and likeness. It's actually true humanism.
~ Roger E. Olson
Our souls - our invisible selves - bear the mark of God Himself. We're like God in that we bear His image.
~ Greg Koukl
Every great tradition has told you that you were created in the image and the likeness of the creative source. That means that you have God potential and power to create your world.
~ James Arthur Ray
For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.
~ George Chapman
Priests are the very offspring of God and share in his likeness. Our lineage is from heaven, which makes us hybrids of heaven and earth, though the scales tip in the direction of heaven. We are more connected to heaven than is the rest of creation. We are children priests or, since our Father is the king, we are royal priests who can enjoy his companionship as he actually enjoys ours.
~ Edward T. Welch
People will always make comparisons.
~ Don DeLillo
This is so much the case that the will is the chief basis for my understanding that I bear a certain image and likeness of God.
~ Rene Descartes
Nevertheless, these undeniable points of likeness, which suggest as at least a probable hypothesis that Aristotle may have possessed some knowledge of Nyaya , must not cause us to forget that there are essential differences between the two viewpoints ; for whereas the Greek syllogism, when all is said and done, bears only on the concepts or notions of things, the Hindu argument has a more direct bearing on things in themselves.
~ Rene Guenon
They are, in fact, like nothing but themselves. They are the crowns of five white spruces laden with cones, bending in the wind as they do every day of their existence. Likeness is the sole problem of men.
~ Richard Powers
If we are created in the image and likeness of God, then whatever good, true, or beautiful things we can say about humanity or creation we can say of God exponentially.
~ Richard Rohr
After God created all the foregoing items of life, God still needed to create man as the highest created life to express Himself in His image and after His likeness. To accomplish this work, there is the need of the Triune God, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit to work on man. This is fully proven by the following books of the whole Bible.
~ Witness Lee