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Letter "L" » likeness
«Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.»
Author: Dorothy Day
(Founder, Journalist)
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cling, cling to, in name, likeness, nobility, scarcely
«When God and his glory are made our end, we shall find a silent likeness pass in upon us; the beauty of God will, by degrees, enter upon our soul»
«This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; / Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.»
«We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose...to be conformed to the likeness of his Son. (Romans 8:28-29)»
«What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer»
«Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.»
«Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: / Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, / And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.»
«The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
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at bottom, exalted, flesh, formed, His father, human flesh, Human Relations, insistence, in the flesh, likeness, likenesses, oscillated, oscillates, oscillating, other than, personal relation, Personal relations, psychoanalysis, relation, relation to, The God, with that
«Thou, old Adam's likeness, set to dress this garden.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Adam, likeness, likenesses, set to
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