Quotes about Symbolism

When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.

The image of God has a shadow. The supreme meaning is real and casts a shadow. For what can be actual and corporeal and have no shadows?

its legs were iron, and its feet were part iron and part clay.

The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.

the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.

Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.

The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ's words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.

And he placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple. Since their wings were spread out, the wing of the first cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the second cherub touched the other wall, and in the middle of the room their wingtips touched.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Do not despise the small but significant symbolic act. God probably does not want you to reorganize the entire discipline or the entire world of your vocation overnight. Learn to be symbol-makers and story-tellers for the kingdom of God.

After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside the well-fed cows on the bank of the river.

One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing was five cubits long as well. So the full wingspan was ten cubits.