Quotes about Symbol

Blood is the symbol of the life sacrificed for sin.

The distinctive feature of Christianity is blood atonement. Without it we cannot be saved. Blood is actually a symbol of the death of Christ.

is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?

The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

The Eucharist is our symbol of what it would mean for the Lord's Prayer to be answered fully: God feeding his people through the death and resurrection of Jesus, which establishes that new community of the Spirit in which forgiveness is the common currency.

The covenant of grace could no more have been made by man, than he can form a bow in the clouds.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!

An olive leaf he brings, pacific sign.

What is not out of the question is that what the world sees as a grotesque image, the cross, has become for Christians a place of grace

At the time that the telegraph brought the news of his death, I was on the Pacific coast. I was a fresh new journalist, and needed a nom de guerre; so I confiscated the ancient mariner's discarded one, and have done my best to make it remain what it was in his hands—a sign and symbol and warrant that whatever is found in its company may be gambled on as being the petrified truth; how I have succeeded, it would not be modest in me to say.

We must see the cross as the magnificent symbol of love conquering hate and of light overcoming darkness. But in the midst of this glowing affirmation, let us never forget that our Lord and Master was nailed to that cross because of human blindness. Those who crucified him knew not what they did.