Quotes about Form

Thus even Christ, though Lord of all things, was yet made of a woman; made under the law; at once free and a servant; at once in the form of God and in the form of a servant.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal patterns. A poem is not merely ordinary thought with a few turns and twiddles added on to make it pretty or memorable. A poem (a good poem, at least) uses its poetic form to probe deeper into human experience than ordinary speech or writing is usually able to do, to pull back a veil and allow the hearer or reader to sense other dimensions.

The basic error of fundamentalism is that it overlooks the contribution of the receptive side in the revelatory situation and consequently identifies one individual and conditioned form of receiving the divine with the divine itself.

that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,

I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.

Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.

Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.

For with one mind they plot together, they form an alliance against You—

and within it was the form of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: They had a human form,

The form of their faces was that of a man, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and also the face of an eagle.

(The cherubim appeared to have the form of human hands under their wings.)