Quotes about Symbol

Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.

So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me,

So it shall serve as a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”

And Moses built an altar and named it The LORD Is My Banner.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.

So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze snake, he would live.

Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the center of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD near her border.

These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.

Like all knowledge, knowledge of God is mediated to us through our senses, through speech and symbol, mediated to us by parents and others. If this were not the case, we would be unable to account for the great diversity of representations of God. If knowledge of God, of the moral order, of the beautiful—if these were all innate, they would be universally identical and acknowledged as such.

To Judeans the cross was perhaps the most hated symbol of Roman rule. The deadly silhouette had scarred too many hilltops, signifying the most ignoble of deaths, a lingering torment that carried shame for all who witnessed it. And yet here it was, portraying a hope that transcended their worries and fears. Merely looking at this bit of carved wood lifted Linux beyond himself, carried upon a promise as strong as it was eternal.