Quotes about Imitation

The essence of being in God's image is our ability, like God, to stop. We imitate God by stopping our work and resting.

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

In our case, God often raises up an enemy to see if we really want to be like Jesus.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Jesus was the only point. Imitation was the point.

All of these imitators imitated Jesus for one reason: because he was God made man.

Compassion: she suffered with. Companion: she broke bread with. Conspiracy: she breathed with. Conscience: she knew with. And finally, consistent with this ethic of imitation.

The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce approbation and a desire of imitation, as avenues may be found for truth to the knowledge of nations.

To know God as he is, is to love him as he is and to want to be like him.