Caricature Quotes

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Karl Friedrich Schlegel

No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.

Barbara W. Tuchman

If I see God as nothing more than a caricature of history or imagination I cannot do anything less than make myself my own ‘god’. And once I realize that in doing so my rendition of being a ‘god’ is embarrassingly inferior to the very caricature I am mimicking, I quickly come to realize that maybe the only thing that can be ‘god’ is a God. And if that is the case, I suddenly find myself hounded by the stunning reality that God is not a caricature.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?