Quotes about Images
The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.
- Walter Brueggemann
Among Trump's first moves as president was to have a series of inspirational photographs in the West Wing replaced with images of big crowd scenes at his inaugural ceremony.
- Michael Wolff
you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
- Numbers 33:52
Make images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and your land.
- 1 Samuel 6:5
Then they put the ark of the LORD on the cart, along with the chest containing the gold rats and the images of the tumors.
- 1 Samuel 6:11
Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even made cast images of the Baals.
- 2 Chronicles 28:2
All worshipers of images are put to shame—those who boast in idols. Worship Him, all you gods!
- Psalm 97:7
As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
- Isaiah 10:10
Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
- Isaiah 21:9
So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
- Isaiah 30:22
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
- Isaiah 46:1
Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
- Jeremiah 8:19