Quotes about Imitation

Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

Join one another in following my example, brothers, and carefully observe those who walk according to the pattern we set for you.

For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not undisciplined among you,

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

Author Stephen Brown notes that a veterinarian can learn a lot about a dog owner he has never met just by observing the dog. What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers on earth?

Author Stephen Brown notes that a veterinarian can learn a lot about a dog owner he has never met just by observing the dog. What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers

No matter what you teach the child, he insists on behaving like his parents.

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

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.

The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.