Quotes about Metaphor
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.
— CS Lewis
and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.
— Ezekiel 23:20
Suppose a cannibal eats a Christian, and suppose the cannibal is then himself converted. The Christian's body has become part of the cannibal's body; who will have which bits at the resurrection?
— NT Wright
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.
— Robert Frost
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
— Job 17:14
Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?
— Mark Cahill
calling in the Bible is a central and dynamic theme that becomes a metaphor for the life of faith itself.
— Os Guinness
The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
— Deuteronomy 28:23
May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
— Psalm 35:5
The thorn is one of the most cursed and angry and crabbed weeds that the earth yields, and yet out of it springs the rose, one of the sweetest smelled flowers, and most delightful to the eye.
— Samuel Rutherford
Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
— Psalm 1:4
Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it?
— Luke 13:18