Top 100 Quotes About Likeness
#1. There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.
Jane Austen
#2. We learn from here the humility of the Holy One, Blessed is He. Since man is in the likeness of the angels, and they would be jealous of him, for this reason, He consulted them.
Rashi
#3. Religion imprisons God. By its own accord, if we are made in the image and likeness of God, then His condemnation of the sinner is an act of hypocrisy. I believe God to be greater than that.
Steve Maraboli
#4. As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Thomas Aquinas
#5. Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. Having been created in the image and likeness of God, unlike trees or flowers or fire or the moon, we are most fully human when we love, forgive and work toward peace. To be violent, vengeful or selfish is to be un-human!
Daniel Horan
#7. Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.
Francis Of Assisi
#8. I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business.
Woody Allen
#9. Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#10. When I see people of my likeness, or who are somebody that I feel connected to, doing something great, I fee like I can do it. It gives me some hope and vision.
Common
#11. We should begin the day with the Bible, and as it comes to a close let the Word speak its wisdom to our souls. Let it be the Staff of Life upon which our spirit is nourished. Let it be the Sword of the Spirit which cuts away the evil of our lives and fashions us in His image and likeness.
Billy Graham
#12. Those who choose to live without God will one day find that they have forfeited their likeness to him.
N. T. Wright
#13. There is no plateau in the Christian life. We are either growing closer to Christ's likeness or we are falling away.
Aimee Byrd
#14. Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
Frank Herbert
#15. Thus God himself was too kind to remain idle and began to play the game of signatures signing his likeness unto the world: therefore I chance to think that all nature and the graceful sky are symbolized in the art of Geometria.
Johannes Kepler
#16. I signed my likeness away. Every time I look in the mirror, I have to send Lucas a couple of bucks.
Carrie Fisher
#17. When you play somebody's life, everything about your likeness, everything about the way you talk, whatever, has to become that person.
Tyrese Gibson
#18. A character formed according to the divine likeness is the only treasure that we can take from this world to the next.
Ellen G. White
#19. Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.
Emile Durkheim
#20. Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
George Eliot
#21. Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#22. O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?
Ovid
#23. I heard the spring light whisper
Above the dancing stream,
The world is made forever
in likeness of a dream.
Bliss Carman
#24. But the false serpent persuaded Adam that he must still do something to become like God: he must achieve that likeness by deciding and acting for himself ... He wanted instead to unravel the mystery of his being for himself, to make himself what God had already made him. That was the Fall of man.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#25. 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 conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God's Son.
Alan Redpath
#26. Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.
Phillips Brooks
#27. Do they not realize they have made me in her likeness? I think of what June is trying to lead me toward. What do they think I will do with it when I have no other options?
Megan Miranda
#28. There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.
Thomas Aquinas
#29. Truth is we must plant and we must water if we are to make progress with our children in holiness but only the Holy Spirit can change our children more and more into the likeness of Jesus. Our problem is we tend to depend upon our planting and watering rather than the Lord.
Jerry Bridges
#30. Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.
John Dryden
#31. Christ-likeness cannot be self-efforted"
~R. Alan Woods [2007]
R. Alan Woods
#32. Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.
Charles Spurgeon
#33. In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.
Jacob Bronowski
#34. Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any likeness; the second prohibits the transferring of the worship which God claims for Himself alone, to any of these phantoms or delusive shows.
John Calvin
#35. Ren's conquests fell into two categories: those girls who still pined for him and those who stuck pins into his voodoo likeness every night.
Andrea Cremer
#36. Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#37. A likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.
Vincent Van Gogh
#39. Oh, for shame! Nancy, have you never seen Florrie's face in a chrysanthemum, or a rose?'
'Never.' I said. 'Though there was a flounder for sale on a fishmonger's barrow, in Whitechapel yesterday, and the likeness was quite uncanny. I very nearly brought it home ...
Sarah Waters
#40. 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 all, even to those who deserve the opposite.
F.F. Bruce
#41. The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.
Charles Spurgeon
#42. Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#43. And I, tiny being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
felt myself a pure part
of the abyss.
Pablo Neruda
#44. I quoted to him what I remembered of Charles Darwin: "'Judging by the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity ... '"
"Darwin was right," Nebogipfel said gently.
Stephen Baxter
#45. Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#46. Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to the original.
Andrew Murray
#47. I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
P. J. O'Rourke
#48. Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
Margaret Fuller
#49. Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of icon, or visual likeness, which bears an indexical relationship to its object.
Rosalind E. Krauss
#50. Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes.
Richard Watson Gilder
#51. Ay, truly, for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness.
William Shakespeare
#52. The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
Michel De Montaigne
#53. Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#55. Every great tradition has told you that you were created in the image and the likeness of the creative source. That means that you have God potential and power to create your world.
James Arthur Ray
#56. O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?
Andrei Platonov
#57. The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#58. God is seen as a male whose first creation was another man, Adam, whom we are told was made in his image and likeness.
Frederick Lenz
#59. 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.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
#61. As the flower turns to the sun, that the bright beams may aid in perfecting its beauty and symmetry, so should we turn to the Sun of Righteousness, that Heaven's light may shine upon us, that our character may be developed in to the likeness of Christ.
Ellen G. White
#62. NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose likeness the active powers of the mind create a thousand other errors.
Horace Mann
#63. There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and surprise.
Christine Downing
#64. 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.
Marie De Gournay
#65. So then, perhaps there would be more justice in the bigger and it would be easier to observe closely. If you want, first we'll investigate what justice is like in the cities. Then, we'll also go on to consider it in individuals, considering the likeness of the bigger in the idea24 of the littler?
Plato
#66. The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.
Oswald Chambers
#67. I allow my creativity to push me in directions that are simply interesting to me and I don't worry about the likeness of the result to some notion - some paradigm - of what music composition is supposed to be.
Mark Applebaum
#68. Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.
William Gilmore Simms
#70. We make Rizal in our own image and likeness. Our image of Rizal is usually formed or deformed in school through numerous biographies with flattering titles.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#71. When it seems as if God is far away, remind yourself that He is near. Nearness is not a matter of geography. God is everywhere. Nearness is likeness. The more we become like the Lord, the nearer He is to us.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#72. My voice, my likeness is my livelihood. That's it. I keep it simple. I pick good products.
Billy Mays
#73. The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.
Oswald Chambers
#74. My bride is here ... because my equal is here and my likeness ... come to me- come to me entilrely now ... make my happiness- I will make yours
Charlotte Bronte
#75. If I die here in Glasgow, I shall be eaten by worms; If I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms; for in the Great Day my resurrection body will arise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer.
John Gibson Paton
#76. Back in 1948, a monomaniac called Korczak resolved to impose Crazy Horse's likeness upon a mountain. It took 50 years to complete the head, which measures 90ft from crown to chin. By comparison, the four presidents at Mt Rushmore seem modest.
Clive Sinclair
#77. Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.
Giacomo Casanova
#78. There is a purpose in life
to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy; and in no other way can true joy be found.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#79. If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is not unplausible) then it is the duty of man to bring out into its full splendor that Divine Image which is latent, on one side, in the complexity of his own nature.
William Batchelder Greene
#80. I'm not certain, but it's quite possible I'm gradually maturing into the likeness of an elderly, angry, mumbling Scotsman.
A.M. Dean
#81. Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.
Meister Eckhart
#82. I'm building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a 'Star Wars' project. My life goal is to have a character in the 'Star Wars' universe, film or other media. I just want to go to my grave knowing I played some character or some character based on my likeness was part of that world.
Rahul Kohli
#83. God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.
Oswald Chambers
#84. God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
Watchman Nee
#85. I live in Jesus, on Jesus, with Jesus, and soon hope to be perfectly conformed to His likeness.
Charles Spurgeon
#86. If you have no share in the living Lord may God have mercy upon you! If you have no share in Christ's rising from the dead then you will not be raised up in the likeness of His glorified body. If you do not attain to that resurrection from among the dead then you must abide in death.
Charles Spurgeon
#87. The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
Aeschylus
#88. 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 courage to end or the strength to go on.
Samuel Beckett
#89. Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future.
Bill Brandt
#90. In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature.
Joshua Reynolds
#91. We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.
George William Russell
#92. Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false.
Georges Braque
#93. Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.
Ambrose Bierce
#94. I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'
Jasper Johns
#95. A loving, just and merciful God who created everything that exists would therefore love all creation equally. Such a God would have no "chosen people" for we would all be God's chosen people, each of us created in the image and likeness of pure and perfect Holy Love itself.
Karlyle Tomms
#96. What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man ... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.
Benny Hinn
#97. I delight in M'Cheyne's remark, It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#98. What's that supposed to be anyway?" said Fred squinting at Dobby's painting. "Looks like a Gibbon with two black eyes!" "It's Harry," said George pointing at the back of the picture. "Says so on the back." "Good likeness," said Fred grinning. Harry threw his new homework diary at him.
J.K. Rowling
#99. As to the strong likeness between General Hamilton and Dr. Stevens, Mr. Yard could give no account; altho' it seemed apparent that he thought them near of kin. In cases of this sort, the possibility of kindred blood gives rise to surmises, or strong suspicions, of which no proof is attainable.
Timothy Pickering
#100. My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the old pictures, the patriarchs have kind of a physical likeness to some of the men on the father's side of my family. I want it to be true.
Juliana Hatfield
