Quotes about Symbolism
There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.
- Dorothy Sayers
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is the signature of man.
- GK Chesterton
The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.
- Abraham Lincoln
Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.
- Margaret Atwood
The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.
- Alister McGrath
Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God's power or presence or purity.
- George Barna
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.
- Shane Claiborne
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell
All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.
- Mark Twain
God crowns us. Most people crown their Christmas trees with either an angel or a star. God uses both.
- Max Lucado