Quotes About Imitation

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.

Every spoof gives more power to the original.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Jesus is to God as we must be to Jesus.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.

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Manifestly, man is the ape that imitates, tells stories, seeks status, morally condemns others, and yearns for the good old days, all of which guarantee a human future studded with religious and financial mass manias.

How many things we acquire only because others bought them and because they are in a good many homes. Many of our problems are explained by the fact that we copy the example of others: rather than following reason, we are led astray by convention. If only a few people did something, we wouldn't imitate them. But when the majority starts to act a certain way, we follow along, too, as if something should be more honorable just because it's more frequent.11

Get up, go and be like him as much as one alive can be like the dead—without dying. Conceive him, yet be your death, too, almost. Like him be now, but only till the shadow of his end falls on the shadow of your being.

n medieval Europe, a new slave would place his head under his master's arm, and have a strap placed around his neck, in imitation of a sheep or cow, and in eighteenth-century Britain, goldsmiths advertised silver padlocks "For blacks or dogs.

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.

The devil is God's ape!

Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy!

According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like.

The Christian should take nothing short of Christ for his model.

Satan can imitate God, but he cannot duplicate Him - God is the only One who can deliver us from our pain and suffering.

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.

We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.

The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

Jesus says that those who live by God's forgiveness must imitate it. A person whose only hope is that God will not hold his faults against him forfeits his right to hold others' faults against them.

God forgets the past... Imitate Him.