Sentence examples for figure of wisdom from inspiring English sources

But in the earliest Christian prayers and writings, she is associated with the divine figure of Wisdom who shows her face, sometimes overtly and sometimes just under the surface, in the Hebrew Scriptures.

A maternal figure of wisdom?

Saramago is a writer who I'd always admired, since I was a teenager, a figure of great wisdom to me.

Much of the world sees these serene figures as symbols of wisdom beyond time, but they offend conservative Muslims.

In Roman Catholic doctrine, Mary, the mother of God, was identified with the figure of the divine Wisdom.

Nick Fletcher as the ex-doctor also conveys a rootless solitude that matches Hester's; and Marion Bailey makes the landlady a figure of instinctive worldly wisdom.

The numerous great churches of Hagia Sophia, foremost among them the cathedral by that name in Constantinople (Istanbul), are consecrated to that figure of the heavenly Wisdom.

I thought President Obama was very wise in his choices for his team of economic advisers: well-trained, centrist economists, bolstered by Paul Volcker, a towering figure of probity and wisdom.

Silent Valley, the collection of black-and-white photos after which Yongliang's Paris show is named, juxtapose a figure of ancient Chinese wisdom against scenes of destructive industrialization.

One is the figure of Manjushri, the bodhisattva of wisdom, as an androgynous adolescent.

Often, the person looking at him – and sternly, at that – was Jerry Desmonde, doyen of variety straight men, who represented the figure of authority in many of Wisdom's hugely successful film farces of the 1950s and 1960s.