Quotes About Likeness

All of us who are human beings are in the image of God. But to be in his likeness belongs only to those who by great love have attached their freedom to God.

In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God.

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

When Electra stood before her, their likeness and their unlikeness, both, were disconcerting. The black hair, the slender shapely form. Yet hyacinth hair in one, dragon's blood in the other, and the one figure like a flower stem and the other figure like a bone. Their faces were unmatched. The younger, peerlessly beautiful, lowered, unreadable. The older face like a carving, with a snake behind it.

You're a lot like Anthony, did you know that?

God's Incarnation opens the way to man's deification. To be deified is, more specifically, to be "christified": the divine likeness that we are called to attain is the likeness of Christ. It is through Jesus the God-man that we men are "ingodded", "divinized", made "sharers in the divine nature" (2 Pet. 1:4).

Again and again, Scripture tells us that God's is a faithful love. Made in God's image and likeness, we are called to be faithful. Fidelity grounds our relationship to God and to those he has given to our care.

Biblically, tenderness is what follows when someone reveals to you your own inner beauty, when you discover your belovedness, when you experience that you are deeply and sincerely liked by someone.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. Chief commandment resulting from the Butlerian Jihad, found in the Orange Catholic Bible

It was that old mass yearning for a likeness in all things that troubled them, and him.

The restoration of the image of God ... the new nature, created after the likeness of God in righteousness and holiness ... the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its Creator ... the renewal of the image will throw light upon the meaning and content of the original creation of man in the image of God.

For Eckhart, this is who God is, and this is who we are in God. If God is love, as the First Letter of John holds (1 John 4:8), then love is God, and our loving is God loving. Through love we are brought into the loving that is God. Says Eckhart, "Likeness and love raise, lead and convey the soul into the prime source of the one, that is, the Father of all things in heaven and earth."42

It is a sad reflection upon a society obsessed with sex that people are now desperate for intimacy and love. But then as John Stott has said, the capacity for relationships is part of the divine likeness in man, whereby we are "made to love. To love other people, and above all, to love God.

Thus all persons are capable of rational discourse, and as John Stott has pointed out, "one of the noblest features of the divine likeness in man is his capacity to think.

He looks a hell of a lot like me, only a fair bit older.

My dear poetry, There's a likenessbetween your eyes and the stars–the same charming brilliance, my eyes have ever laid upon.

Everything in your spiritual life depends on the sort of God you worship. Because the character of the worshiper will always be molded by the character of what he worships: If it is a cruel and revengeful God, the worshiper will be the same, but if it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be transformed slowly, wonderfully, into this likeness.1

These too are integral elements in personality and therefore in sanctity—because a saint is one whom God's love has fully developed into a person in the likeness of his Creator.

As you worry less about going through conflict and focus more on growing through conflict, you will enhance that process and experience the incomparable blessing of being conformed to the likeness of Christ.

Purple cloud covered his head so that he silently attacked his own blood and likeness, a lunar countenance; stonily sank away into emptiness, when in a broken mirror a dying youth, the sister, appeared; the night engulfed the cursed race.

nos parecemos.

Birds of a feather will flock together.

Excellent! You almost look like a human being now!

Along the timeline of history, God has used people with purpose as partners in His Big Plan. As a result of being made in His likeness,2 we have a gnawing need to matter. It's a sense of purpose that comes from being one of His created works of art. He meant these purposes to be developed and realized.