Fig Leaves Quotes

#1. When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Johnny Hunt

#2. The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

Mark Lowry

#3. Adam and Eve covered their privates with fig leaves; the first Indians covered their privates with their tiny hands.

Sherman Alexie

#4. The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

George F. Kennan

#5. Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.

Ralph Nader

#6. Any moment you're willing to give up your fig leaves, which you think are covering you, God will give you His righteousness, which will really cover you.

Johnny Hunt

#7. Morality is like the famous fig leaves that Adam and Eve used to cover their genitals after they first sinned. But what morality really covers up is will, which is our true nature.

Shai Tubali

#8. When we are aware of the pain, we have to train ourselves to lean into that pain. By leaning into the pain, we resist the temptation to avoid building fig leaves that protect us from the fear we feel regarding who we are. Our feelings are critical to our spiritual development.

Chris McAlister

#9. Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity.

Paul-Ludwig Landsberg

#10. For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

James Russell Lowell

#11. Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#12. In Marrakech, Arabian open-heartedness is served up with a generous dose of pan-African mysticism, a dollop of French savoir-vivre, and a garnish of Moorish grace. The vibe is irresistible to meaning-of-life seekers and international hipsters looking for a scene.

Vivian Swift

#13. I was still new to this kind of adrenaline, the immediate release of anger instead of gnawing on it like overdue gum.

Catherine Lacey

#14. Lifetime is television for women. Yet for some reason, there's always a woman getting beaten on that channel. "In a Lifetime original, Meredith Baxter-Berney gets beaten with a rod. In a Lifetime original, Rod."

Jim Gaffigan

#15. I need your submission too, but only if it's real. If you're really not feeling it, then don't pretend. Make me earn it.

Bianca Sommerland

#16. That is the problem with ignorance. You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about.

Adrian Tchaikovsky

#17. When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.

Hal Lindsey

#18. The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

Francis Bacon

#19. Over the years I've learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Joyce Meyer

#20. You don't need a fancy degree to dream big and make it happen. It's all in your head , your heart , your hands.

Rashmi Bansal