Quotes About Likeness

T]he existential setting that came to be known as the 'society of consumers' is distinguished by a remaking of interhuman relations on the pattern, and in the likeness, of the relations between consumers and the objects of their consumption.

It is not in space but in time, he writes, that we find God's likeness. In the Bible, no thing or place is holy by itself; not even the Promised Land is called holy.

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. [in review of a book]

There is a lack of tact in people who their conversation look not to please others, but to elucidate, egotistically, points that they are interested in.' Conversation requires an abdication of oneself in the name of pleasing companions: 'When we speak, it is no longer we who speak...we are fashioning ourselves then in the likeness of other people, and not of a self that differs from them.

A non-human life form with power over human life; gave them words of wisdom, afterwards there came those who were inborn with likeness, who will speak and has Spoken the languages of wisdom, Still they live Unidentified in the eyes of humankind bringing the spirit of hope, yet whenever they leave this world it shall always be so much sorrow. -MillYentei

This is sacred, Seven universes and seven earths created in seven days; along with seven human likeness that has been given the Spirit of life that has been planted across the spaces of universes separated but connected to God. MillYentei_D.L.Y

Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge.

Louis] knew on some level that fame is not the story we tell; it is the story the world tells us. And the world was telling Louis it wanted to see itself reflected in gouache and charcoal of painted calico; that the human eye longed to trust the illusion of likeness. Render perfectly a meadow at dusk, a horizon at dawn, and people will love you for it. For giving them something they didn't know they already had.

The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.

Jesus did not die just to save us from the penalty of sin, nor even just to make us holy in our standing before God. He died to purify for Himself a people eager to obey Him, a people eager to be transformed into His likeness.

God in His infinite wisdom knows exactly what adversity we need to grow more and more into the likeness of His Son. He not only knows what we need but when we need it and how best to bring it to pass in our lives. He is the perfect teacher or coach. His discipline is always exactly suited for our needs. He never over trains us by allowing too much adversity in our lives.

But we must be transformed more and more into the likeness of Christ. That is the purpose of discipline.

The good that God works for in our lives is conformity to the likeness of His Son.

Humanity is God's culminating act of creativity, designed with the highest intention to reflect most personally the likeness of God. Ironically, we who were created with the highest intention were also created with the capacity to deny, betray, or demean that intention. Whereas a horse will always live as a horse is intended to live, humans may live inhumane lives.

Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to the original.

I just can't whip off a likeness of somebody.

There is not much we can say with absolute confidence about the early church, but we can be fairly sure that the first Christians would not have dreamed of making a likeness of Jesus.

We were more alike than we were different, he and I.

The film looks suspiciously like the game itself!

A word only stands for the ways in which things or happenings of the same general kind are like one another. That's why the word is public. And, being public, it can't possibly stand for the ways in which happenings of the same general kind are unlike one another.

Christian philosophy of work was this. God is our creator. God made us in His image and likeness. Therefore we are creators. He gave us a garden to till and cultivate. We become co-creators by our responsible acts, whether in bringing forth children, or producing food, furniture or clothing. The joy of creativeness should be ours.

Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.

It is not God's function to create or uncreate the circumstances of your life. God created You, in the image and likeness of God. You have created the rest.

He dwells in me and gives me being, life, sensation, intelligence; and makes a temple of me, since I am created in the likeness and image of the Divine Majesty.