Quotes about Symbolism
God, it would seem, did not communicate to His people an explicit and systematic form of doctrine; instead, He instructed them, mainly, through His providential dealings and by means of types and symbols. Once this is clearly grasped by us it gives new interest to the Old Testament scriptures.
— AW Pink
You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.
— Audrey Hepburn
Fred at six years old thought her the nicest girl in the world, making her his wife with a brass ring which he had cut from an umbrella.
— George Eliot
The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ's words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.
— John Wycliffe
The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.
— Aristotle
Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
— John Milton
There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
— Mark Twain
The black unicorn was mistaken for a shadow or symbol and taken through a cold country where mist painted mockeries of my fury.
— Audre Lorde
In my journals I have a lot of conversations that I'm having with you in my head. I'll be having a conversation with you and I'll put it in my journal because stereotypically or symbolically these conversations occur in a space of Black woman/white woman where it's beyond Adrienne and Audre, almost as if we're two voices.
— Audre Lorde
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not to begin a sentence with And . I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And , but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James. In that case, I argued, why make us read the Bible? But it was in vain. Robert Graves was very keen on the symbolism and mysticism in the Bible at that time [Childhood].
— Stephen Hawking
Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.
— Tim LaHaye
No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.
— Graham Greene