Quotes About Likeness

although metaphor undoubtedly deals in likenesses, similarity, it also deals in unlikeness and dissimilarity.

After all, if disability brings nothing but likeness to others into the world as its primary contribution to questions of lived embodiment, what value will it have to help us reimagine ways of artfully living less productive, less consumptive, and less exploitative lives?

Binzee exhaled. He was a wild child, but when it came to an African queen, he was a true gentleman on all aspects. He didn't play when it came to those built in his mother's likeness. They were even more important than the air he breathed. Binzee stared at

God has some areas where he likes to be supplicated in, and the prayer of the supplicator is accepted (in those areas); the sanctuary of Husayn (a.s.) is one of these.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

While I don't know who will eventually be selected, I think Kangana Ranaut can portray me perfectly on screen, I like her as an actress.

Odd that a thing is most itself when likened

Most of your statues in churches do not correspond to the picture I have of you. In the statues you are shown very much like a nun, with a rosary in your hand. You are smiling serenely. But nuns have no children. You have. Your true likeness has yet to be depicted.

Get rid of your old self, which made you live as you used to — the old self that was being destroyed by its deceitful desires. Your hearts and minds must be made completely new, and you must put on the new self, which is created in God's likeness" (Ephesians 4:22 – 24

He resembled, to an extraordinary degree, an asparagus.

Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.

Dear God, you created us in your likeness, our hearts are uneasy until they find you - From the film Sophie Scholl

Religion imprisons God. By its own accord, if we are made in the image and likeness of God, then His condemnation of the sinner is an act of hypocrisy. I believe God to be greater than that.

From the very earliest ages, our children need to know that they belong to God. God created them for a purpose, and He created them in His image. We are all His image-bearers. We bear His likeness. Our ability to think, love, and communicate indicates that we were created in God's likeness.

Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

Though there is an immense gap between Divinity and humanity, this gap is not immeasurable. Knowledge of anything requires some form of similarity or analogous relationship. Some point of connection is required between God and man for communication to be possible. And this is exactly what we find in Genesis 1. As God, in Christ, created all things to reveal the glory of God, He created man in His own image and likeness.

Before the likeness of God in man was defaced by the fall, it consisted of the rational knowledge of God as well as the moral uprightness to love and obey God.

He walked back into the living room, looking again at the illuminated photo of the man with the brown beard and long hair. "Who's that, a friend of yours?" Mr. Sweety glanced over. He said, "This picture here?" and sounded surprised. "It's Jesus. Who you think it was?" "It's a photograph," Raymond said. Mr. Sweety said, "Yeah, it's a good likeness, ain't it?

Judas, too, is in the image and likeness of the divine. He is not a demon, although he may seem to us to be one. He is a human being. And we cannot afford to demonize human beings. Judas calls us to conscience.

It was redeemed from sin by Niepce and Lumière. In achieving the aims of baroque art, photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

Back in 1948, a monomaniac called Korczak resolved to impose Crazy Horse's likeness upon a mountain. It took 50 years to complete the head, which measures 90ft from crown to chin. By comparison, the four presidents at Mt Rushmore seem modest.

Cynthia and I are very alike in our tastes.

It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises from it bearing the lilies of the dead, and in it we find a forgotten likeness to ourselves. And that faint, wistful shadow, that pale scent, seemed to vanish away into a wide, full, warm stream – the life that now lay open before him.