Sentence examples for face of christ from inspiring English sources

You lead always with the merciful face of Christ".

"They wrote me up as 'a man with the face of Christ,'" said Moondog.

These were images registered by direct contact, and they were usually images of the Holy Face of Christ.

By changing the face of Christ, he redefined the grand religious narrative scene as a quiet, emphatically human moment.

"The Graven Image," for example, concerns a smudged apartment window in which pious onlookers saw the face of Christ.

He once wrote, "I burned holy pictures and hit the face of Christ in pictures with my fist".

Meanwhile, the faces of Christ and the two fathers of the church have a finely shaded fleshiness that makes them movingly alive.

Prominent bumps on the forehead are indicated on the faces of Christ (in addition to the two by Dr. Schumacher, there is a "Christ Pantocrator" by Father Andrew Tregubov in the style of Russian-born iconographer Father Gergory Kroug, who lived from 1909 to 1969).

Faces of Christ or saints suddenly materialize, to the astonishment of the believers.

"He painted a lot of faces of Christ and he painted faces of clowns-their eyes were exactly the same".

Vasari describes how Leonardo, troubled over his ability to adequately depict the faces of Christ and the traitor Judas, told the Duke that he might be obliged to use the prior as his model.