Quotes about Signify
God gave the Ten Commandments in the no-man's land of a desert rather than in the land of Israel, to signify these laws do not just belong to one people, but to all humanity.
- Dennis Prager
It is not without reason that the Evangelist is careful to tell us the smallest details. For these two disciples signify two peoples, the Jews [by John] and the Gentiles [by Peter].
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Reply to Objection 1: The reason why God has no name, or is said to be above being named, is because His essence is above all that we understand about God, and signify in word. Reply to Objection 2: Because we know and name God from creatures, the names we attribute to God signify what belongs to material creatures, of which the knowledge is natural to us.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
I put in these parentheses to signify a complicated wink — you understand?
- Mark Twain
ALPHA (A'LPHA) n.s.The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to our A; therefore used to signify the first. I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.BibleRevelat.
- Samuel Johnson