Top 290 Likeness Quotes & Sayings

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

God cannot be represented by an image. We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. We wrong God, and put an affront upon him, if we think so. God honoured man in making his soul after his own likeness; but man dishonours God if he makes him after the likeness of his body. The Godhead is spiritual, infinite, immaterial, incomprehensible, and therefore it is a very false and unjust conception which an image gives us of God.

It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.

We created god in our own image and likeness!

certain ancient cavilers have gone so far as to deny that the female sex, as opposed to the male sex, is made in the likeness of God, which likeness they must have taken to be, as far as I can tell, in the beard.

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

There can be little liking where there is no likeness.

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

If we are in fact using name, image and likeness of student-athletes, they should be compensated.

... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point of ecstasy, you no longer want it. Your imaginal act is as much a creative act as a physical one wherein man halts, shrinks and is blessed, for as man creates his own likeness, so does your imaginal act transform itself into the likeness of your assumption. If, however, you do not reach the point of satisfaction, repeat the action over and over again until you feel as though you touched it and virtue went out of you.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.

Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.

I am satisfied, for I awake in Thy likeness.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

The pamphlet uses my name, my likeness, my 'shtick' (if you will), and my very act, which is derived from my personality, to attract attention and converts.

The idea that the Lord our God is not a personage of tabernacle is entirely a mistaken notion. He was once a man. Brother Kimball quoted a saying of Joseph the Prophet, that he would not worship a God who had not a Father; and I do not know that he would if be had not a mother; the one would be as absurd as the other. If he had a Father, he was made in his likeness. And if he is our Father we are made after his image and likeness.

Every angle acknowledges that it is a likeness of true angularity, for [each angle] is angle not insofar as angle exists in itself but insofar as angle exists in something else, viz., in a surface. And so, true angularity is present in creatable and depictable angles as in a likeness of itself.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.

I do believe that the name, image, likeness for an individual is a fundamental right - that any individual controls his or her name, image and likeness - and I don't believe that a student-athlete who accepts a grant-in-aid simply waives that right to his or her name, image, likeness.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish.

The promise of God is that you are His son. Her offspring. Its likeness. His equal. Ah...here is where you get hung up. You can accept "His son," "offspring," "likeness," but you recoil at being called "His equal." It is too much to accept. Too much bigness, too much wonderment-too much responsibility. For if you are God's equal, that means nothing is being done to you-and all things are created by you. There can be no more victims and no more villains-only outcomes of your thought about a thing.

Even when sisters are different... Their likeness comes shining through!

The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.

The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.

My likeness to Jesus must be through suffering and humility.

Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.

The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.

My voice, my likeness is my livelihood. That's it. I keep it simple. I pick good products.

There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.

Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes.

I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.

It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this sentiment generally admitted we should not see such tenacious adherence to what men deem the opinions and doctrines of Christ while at the same time in every day practise is exhibited anything but a likeness to Christ.

We know from the book of Genesis that God created men and women 'in His image and likeness.' We know from the first letter of John that 'God is Love.' Therefore, men and women are made in the image and likeness of Love. This isn't hard to see. Look at the design of the male and female bodies. They are made for each other. In fact, neither one makes complete sense apart from the other.

a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.

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

Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that goes out there.

I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

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

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

All individuals have the same value, not to be determined by market price. They're made in the image and likeness of God.