Quotes about Appearance
Summarized as follows: Sunday: Favor with God (spiritual revelation, anointing, holiness). Monday: Favor with others (congregations, ministry staff, unsaved). Tuesday: Increased vision (wisdom and enlightenment, motives, guidance). Wednesday: Spirit, Soul, Body (health, appearance, attitudes.
- Dutch Sheets
We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.
- Edith Wharton
That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way.
- Edith Wharton
Rich and idle and ornamental societies must produce many more such situations;
- Edith Wharton
Have you ever thought about Jesus' physical appearance? If you think about the paintings, he was a relatively handsome Dutchman. But if you think about a prophetic description, "he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him" (Isaiah 53:2). To put it diplomatically, he didn't look like much, and sleepless nights filled with prayer vigils probably didn't help.
- Edward Welch
It's really important for me to look good before a race. I definitely think if I feel I look good, it makes me feel more confident.
- Jessica Ennis-Hill
Hypocrisy is a proud desire to appear better than you are. Be thoroughly humbled and vile in your own eyes, and hypocrisy is done.
- Richard Baxter
there is an early stage "holiness" that looks like the real thing, but it isn't.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for "false evidence appearing real.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
They look like the oppressors, but have no doubt they are really the oppressed.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Some are obviously living in bondage. Others give the appearance that they have overcome such problems. But the fact remains that even if it is not apparent in a person's outward behavior, this is the true state of all our hearts.
- William Wilberforce
A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.
- Winston Churchill