818 Quotes About Metaphor

Metaphors, similes, and analogies sharpen the sword of our writing. They allow us to cut quickly through the fat to the meat of our purpose (p. 146).

The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her child if someone were to harm it. There is something wrong if the mother never gets angry; it is safe to say that that is the unloving mother.

You don’t have to be a builder to be an architect.

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

…metaphors in architecture are generally thought of not as treacherous sources of delusion but as (to use an architectural metaphor) cornerstones of creativity.

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

If you have been battling the cannon fire, gunfire won't bother you.

Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.

Don't be sunlight in someone's bright hours, try to be moonlight in someone's dark hours.