Quotes about Symbolism

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks.

Shishakli presented two thin, whiplike shafts as Paul approached. The shafts were about a meter and a half long with glistening plasteel hoods at one end, roughened at the other end for a firm grip. Paul accepted them both in his left hand as required by the ritual. "They are my own hooks," Shishakli said in a husky voice. "They never have failed.

Roses denote grace.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showeth that they are His own: and the new-shorn sheep do most visibly bear His name or mark; when it is almost worn out and scarce discernible on them that have the longest fleece.

favorite metaphors. I love the image of fire, not for its seeming destructiveness, but as a natural symbol for transformation—literally, the changing of forms. Farmers, forestry workers, and Native peoples know that fire is a renewing force, even as it also can be destructive. We in the West tend to see it as merely destructive (which is probably why we did not understand the metaphors of hell or purgatory).

Then Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our separation from God was split from top to bottom, indicating that direct access to God was once again available.