Best Likeness Quotations
182 Likeness quotes by 144 unique authors
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The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no…
— Gerhard Richter
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The first priority will consist in restoring a sense of the acceptance of life as a gift from God. According to both Sacred Scripture and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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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…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Father God, thank You for having no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of…
— Beth Moore
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Give up the struggle and the fight; relax in the omnipotence of the Lord Jesus; look up into His lovely face and as you behold…
— Alan Redpath
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It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.
— Charles Spurgeon
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I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is…
— Pope John Paul II
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The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.
— Charles Spurgeon
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We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people--you will be that inevitably--but primarily we are saved in order to be…
— Alan Redpath
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God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
— Watchman Nee
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The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.
— Oswald Chambers
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The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and…
— Thomas Merton
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The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment, saying within herself: 'If I…
— Ambrose
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Every man possesses that which is according to the image of God, for the gifts of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29). But only a few…
— John of Damascus
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When the soul is solidly rooted in... peacefulness, when it is freed of the bonds of every carnal urge, when the unshaking thrust of the…
— John Cassian
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A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so…
— Jacob Bronowski
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God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to…
— F. F. Bruce
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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.…
— Jerry Bridges
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The soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us, He takes His delight. What do you imagine, must that…
— Teresa of Avila
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Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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…
— Samuel Beckett
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You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I am persuaded that I shall obtain the highest amount of present happiness, I shall do most for God’s glory and the good of man,…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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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…
— Robert Musil
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