Quotes about Imitation

God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.

We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

We tend to become like those whom we admire.

Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never says that he asks for admirers, adoring admirers, adherents; and when he uses the expression 'follower' he always explains it in such a way that one perceives that 'imitators' is meant by it, that is not adherents of a teaching but imitators of a life....

Imitation, which corresponds to Christ as prototype, must be advanced, be affirmed, be called to our attention

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

To do so is to begin a life like God's. It is to begin to imitate the "holiness" of God; the Hebrew word for holiness means, quite literally, "set apart.

The Lord has adopted us to be his children on this condition that we reveal an imitation of Christ who is the mediator of our adoption. Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure him as our Savior.

Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative. She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could not help modelling herself on the last person she met, and the confusion of ideals thus produced caused her much perturbation when she had to choose between two courses.