Spiritual Metaphor Quotes

#1. The claim in Psalms that "the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament proclaims His works" (Psalms 19:2) is not a mere metaphor. The study of nature, even with all its intellectual rigor, is filled with spiritual wonder.

Gerald Schroeder

#2. If you're looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne Michaels as a symbol for God and my struggles with hair removal as a metaphor for virtue

Tina Fey

#3. What the world needs today more than anything else is an implicit faith in God, our Father, and in Jesus Christ, His Son, as the Redeemer of the world.

Heber J. Grant

#4. This force is unlimited. It is always moving and always flowing. The ancient Hawaiians, the Kahunas, used the metaphor of the flow of a running stream to represent the divine force.

Wayne Dyer

#5. Your Mom's Car. Think about that. Try to wrap your brain around the supernatural and spiritual implications that the name bears down you. Your Mom's Car, holding its hand out straight, fingers curled, a zombie reaching for your neck.

Dan Chaon

#6. You know what I hate the most? People that imitate owls.

Emo Philips

#7. I'm embarrassed that people will know that I can't ride a bicycle. For years, I have been feigning bad ankles and saying I wasn't in the mood for a bike ride.

Jill Soloway

#8. She cried for the life she could not control. She cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes. She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart. But, above all, she cried for the future ... which suddenly felt so uncertain.

Dan Brown

#9. What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does reflects on all Jews." To

Anne Frank

#10. We are all but symbols of some greater thing - totems of ourselves
subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of ourselves, we lose sight of the overall path.

S. Kelley Harrell

#11. If (or rather when) you move to death, you'll learn its language through the educational process known as total immersion. (7)

Sandra M. Gilbert

#12. We can't live other people's lives for them. Even if we love them.

Kristin Hannah

#13. You are tougher to kill than Steven Seagal...

Zoe Forward

#14. Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle

Jodi Picoult

#15. The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

Larry Dossey

#16. The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.

Susan Sontag