Quotes About Likeness

Those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son. ROMANS 8:29

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 CORINTHIANS 3:18

and then she realized: they WERE all alike!

Likeness is not identity; orthographic projection is not orthography; drawing is not writing and architecture does not speak.

For if one makes faith everything, that is, makes it what it is, then, according to my way of thinking, one may speak of it without danger in our age, which hardly extravagates in the matter of faith, and it is only by faith one attains likeness to Abraham, not by murder. If one makes love a transitory mood, a voluptuous emotion in a man, then one only lays pitfalls for the weak when one would talk about the exploits of love.

The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.

The story she then told was as all attempts at sympathy are: an effort to match in form and size and detail what another has known: to hold one experience next to another the way lovers and children match fingers and hands, as if these two, side by side, are linked by their likeness, are both identical and unique.

Most times mens look pretty much alike to me.

If you ask what the people here are like, I must tell you, "Like people everywhere!" Uniformity marks the human race.

I heard the spring light whisper Above the dancing stream, The world is made forever in likeness of a dream.

This is the world: the lying likeness of Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move Loving and being loth; The dream that kicks the buried from their sack And lets their trash be honoured as the quick. This is the world. Have faith.

Everything must be like something, so what is this ike?

Man is made, not simply in the image of God, as though the divine image were reproduced in man, but rather, man is made as the image of God. He is like God.

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

All flesh consorteth according to kind, and a man will cleave to his like.

Like people, like priest.

The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.

How decisive for the Christian educator, or for any educator of good will, is the revelation that man is made in the image and likeness of the three-Personed God? That is like asking what difference it will make to us if we keep in mind that a human being is made not for the processing of data, but for wisdom; not for the utilitarian satisfaction of appetite, but for love; not for the domination of nature, but for participation in it; not for the autonomy of an isolated self, but for communion.

It is my belief that, given the necessary physical likeness, it was far easier to pretend to be king of Ruritania than it would have been to personate my next-door neighbor.

It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. Some things beggar likeness, he thought. He

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,' " Paul quoted.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

She remembered a word he'd often used, karuna-one of the Buddha's words, Pali for compassion, for the immanence of all living things in each other, for the attraction of life for its likeness. A time will come, he had said to the girls, when you too will discover what this word karuna means, and from that moment on, your lives will never again be the same.

When I got back to Marceline, I did not conceal from her how tedious I found all these acquaintances. They are all alike, I said to her. When I talk to one, I feel as if I were talking to the whole lot. But, my dear, said Marceline, you can't expect each of them to be different from the others. The greater their likeness to each other, the more unlike they are to me.