Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.
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A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
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The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
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Acts 2:3:
They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
(NIV)
And there appeared to them tongues resembling fire, which were separated and distributed and which settled on each one of them.
(AMP)
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
(KJV)
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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
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