Quotes about Emblems

All the legal washings and purifications were but types and emblems representing Christ's blood. This blood whitens the black soul.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

It is strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate one, like scent. I suppose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St John. They look like fragments of heaven. I think the emerald is more beautiful than any of them.

If sign and image are central to the New Testament, then it has to be read as a kind of narrative poetry. In the Scripture, we encounter types and symbols and emblems of transfiguration, and that is how the early Church, which created the New Testament, understood its own creation.