Quotes about Appearance

A Christian wife who may be looking good on the outside, but who cuts her husband with her words, runs him down to her friends and family, and dishonors him in the children's presence is not beautiful by God's definition.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

There are some, however, that know the prejudice of mankind in favour of modest sincerity. The vendor of the beautifying fluid sells a lotion that repels pimples, washes away freckles, smooths the skin, and plumps the flesh; and yet, with a generous abhorrence of ostentation, confesses, that it will not restore the bloom of fifteen to a lady of fifty.

I am an appearance The world is an appearance The bread I eat is an appearance All wish't forth from Mind Essence Due to Ignorance-- I don't have to exist I don't exist, I do exist-- Who cares? For the purposes of this world Do nothing Or do everything anyhow.

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.

At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.

What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man...God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom.

He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who does not look happy.