#likeness

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#jesus #suffering #wounds #life

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#christ #creating #fell #god #him

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

— Edvard Munch

#find #good #his #i #likeness

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#beings #believe #believes #biological #classification

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

#allow #defeat #fight #hate #insure

To simplify your life, just think of yourself as a four-year-old child. Try to imagine the way he thinks of reality. If you have to talk to someone about a so-called complicated matter, see how you can simplify it. No matter with whom you are talking, feel that you are a child and that person is also a child. When a childlike quality comes into your life, everything automatically becomes simple. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#childlikeness #simplicity #imagination

What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? "Me Father is very fond of me! ↗

— John Ortberg Jr.

#god-s-love #joy #love

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.' ↗

— Jasper Johns

#could #decided #i #identify #likeness

Christ-likeness cannot be self-efforted" ~R. Alan Woods [2007] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #self-effort #r-alan-woods

I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#love #marriage #souls #business