Quotes about Symbol

His eyes widened. "You mean the symbol we use for peace began as a hate symbol against Christianity?" She nodded. "It was a visual representation of the way Nero crucified Christians upside down.

A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.

A kiss is the only thing you can throw at someone without being held criminally responsible.

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and the power of movement, of action, in man.

She truly is a symbol of the resilience of nature—and a reminder of all that was lost on that terrible day twenty years ago.

All imitation in morals and in life is wrong.  Through the streets of Jerusalem at the present day crawls one who is mad and carries a wooden cross on his shoulders.  He is a symbol of the lives that are marred by imitation. 

Yet today, from countless paintings, statues, and buildings, from literature and history, from personality and institution, from profanity, popular song, and entertainment media, from confession and controversy, from legend and ritual—Jesus stands quietly at the center of the contemporary world, as he himself predicted. He so graced the ugly instrument on which he died that the cross has become the most widely exhibited and recognized symbol on earth.

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

He planted marriage among humans as yet another signpost pointing to his own eternal, spiritual existence.

There are three elements of the traditionalist pathway: ritual (or liturgical pattern); symbol (or significant image); and sacrifice. Evelyn Underhill, a popular Christian writer in the early part of this century, calls these three elements "sensible signs of supra-sensible action." They are ways we use the physical world to express nonphysical (spiritual) truths.

But I doubt not, that leathern tally, meant for man, was taken off in Heaven, when the white fowl flew to join the wing-folding, the invoking, and adoring cherubim!