Image Of God Quotes

“People today are trying to hang on to the dignity of man, but they do not know how to, because they have lost the truth that man is made in the image of God. . . . We are watching our culture put into effect the fact that when you tell men long enough that they are machines, it soon begins to show in their actions. You see it in our whole culture -- in the theater of cruelty, in the violence in the streets, in the death of man in art and life.”
― Francis A. Schaeffer, Escape from Reason

“Augustine taught that true freedom is not choice or lack of constraint, but being what you are meant to be. Humans were created in the image of God. True freedom, then, is not found in moving away from that image but only in living it out.”
― Augustine of Hippo

“If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what is in their part of the mirror? If every man was created equal and in the image of God, then how can any man claim that one race is better than another?”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“The author recognizes the power of the persecuting tribe referring to members of hers consistently as "snakes" or "roaches". This dehumanizing language, she realizes, seeps into the subconscious and makes it easier to forget that fellow humans were created in God's image.”
― Immaculee Ilibagiza, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

“So we speak of a Black God, Mother God, Worker God.
This de-mystifies what's been passed on to us! In our process of organization and liberation of our people, it's important to meet a God who is more like us. (Silvia Regina de Lima Silva, p. 105)”
― Mev Puleo, The Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation

“Darkness entered into, darkness realized, is the point of departure for all profound expressions of Christian hope. 'Meaningless darkness' becomes 'revelatory darkness' when it is confronted by the courage of a thoughtfulness and hope that is born of faith's quest for truth.”
― Douglas John Hall, Imaging God: Dominion as Stewardship

“I have lived all my life among shadows and broken images.”
― C.S. Lewis, Perelandra

“We are God’s dissidents every time we respond in offices, in communities, in churches, in schools, and in any areas of abuse. We do this as a part of systems, many of them with good and godly aims. We must not go to sleep. We must watch. We must not assume that our family, church, community, country, or organization is always right just because the people in it use the right words. We must never agree to “protect” the name of God by covering ungodliness. In Ephesians 5:11, Paul warns us not to participate in the deeds of darkness but instead to expose them.

Understand that you cannot singlehandedly change an entire system; you are not called to do so. Yet we are to speak truth about our systems. This is difficult to do and sometimes quite risky. Just ask Martin Luther King Jr. Ask Martin Luther himself. Ask those in the #MeToo movement. When systems change, it is often little by little and usually at great cost.

When you feel overwhelmed, remember this: people are sacred, created in the image of God. Systems are not. They are only worth the people in them and the people they serve. And people are to be treated, whether one or many, the way Jesus Christ treated people.”
― Diane Langberg, Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church

“oh brave one,
oh broken, beautifully brave one,
remember.
remember that no matter how tiny the fragments this time,
how far apart they are scattered,
how long you must search,
he will help you find the pieces of the person you once were
and the image you once bore.”
― Maya Joelle, Cathedral: a collection

“An uncritical embrace of American gun culture is inconsistent with beliefs about the sanctity of life. We must be careful that we are not eager to kill, nor to take killing another human being--any other human being--too lightly. All human beings, no matter how good or bad, have equal inherent value because they are made in the image of God.”
― Michael W. Austin, God and Guns in America

“God’s purpose is to restore His people to their true nature - the image they were created in. The purpose of Christ's coming was to redeem mankind, to bring back the image of God that was lost in the garden of Eden.”
― Prasanth Jonathan

“We have been fooled by the people of this world into believing the material life and its luxuries are everlasting while they deviate us from our own self our very own identity, the image of God, the soul the command of the creator BE. The perfect sublime king who created all of us in perfection in his likeliness.”
― Aiyaz Uddin, The Inward Journey

“You claim to be made in the image of God. But in reality, we are all beggars before God.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Regardless of how big the victory, we win nothing by trampling the humanity of another.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The words Let us, our image, our likeness pronounce a mutual connection. Creation forms new life, but even more so formulates a relationship between the Creator and humanity. Yahweh shares and comes close by sharing his image and his likeness. This association or, as some would mistakenly say, “partnership,” does not lessen who he is. When God creates, he is never less than himself. He neither changes nor can face rivalry by interacting or sharing. He is beyond human thinking. The assumed thought that an earthly monarch who shares or associates with a weaker or lesser person would lose honor, self-essence, power, or status is incorrect. Quite the contrary, the divine graciously sharing of himself brings honor. God speaks his mind—who are we not to take notice and stand in awe?”
― Nakhati Jon, Searching Below the Surface: A Deeper Look at Covenant and Contract

“We bear the image of God. We occupy a unique place in God's created order--"a little lower than the angels" according to the psalmist (Ps. 8:5). We bear the divine imprint in the sense that we posses, among other things, an eternal soul, the faculty of reason, and a "capacity for moral goodness." We're not just animals with a more developed cerebral cortex. There's a precious dignity inherent in our status as God's image bearers.”
― Robert Tracy McKenzie, We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy

“When we practice generosity and forgiveness, we reflect the image of God.”
― Mac Canoza

“Do you know that the most disastrous aspect of colonization which we are the most reluctant to release from our mind is their colonization of the "Image of God".

We used to have an Image that represented our understanding of God at that time, they came and demonized those images then created another, in the process, they changed our names, made us think that our intelligence only starts when we can speak and write their language not ours.

As long as we still believe these things, we are still in deeper slavery.

Start thinking people”
― Chidi Ejeagba

“It is a privilege to have been made in God’s image and to resemble Him.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“Although we are made in the image of God, we cannot substitute for who He is.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“The doctrine of the imago Dei, that human beings are created in the “image and likeness of God,” is central to Christian life and practice and touches, perhaps even helps to form, every other doctrine of the Christian faith in one way or another.”
― Lucy Peppiatt, The Imago Dei: Humanity Made in the Image of God

“To have been created intentionally, imagined in the mind of God, and then brought into being communicates something profound about a person’s intrinsic worth. It speaks—you are loved; you are wanted; you are valued. Further to this, to have been created as some kind of reflection or embodiment of the divine serves only to strengthen the idea that human beings are of infinite worth and beauty.”
― Lucy Peppiatt, The Imago Dei: Humanity Made in the Image of God

“Let's stop trying to make God in our image.”
― Brother Pedro

“From the very beginnings of our story as followers of Jesus, we have recognized and honoured the fundamental truth that every person is made in the image of God. Yet, while we are quick to celebrate those aspects of the divine image with which we personally relate, we all too quickly reject and denounce those that are different than ourselves as suspect or lesser than or sinful.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“When it comes to our 2SLGBTQIA+ siblings, we continue to deny the divine image expressed in their very differences, a reflection of God’s infinitely diverse and beautiful nature. Don’t be fooled: Within that very denial is a denial of Christ himself, reducing him to the narrow image of the privileged few. Such a denial is a sin against others, against ourselves, and ultimately against God.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“We cherry-pick our favorite traits and words of Christ and run with them - amplifying some parts while silencing others - to suit our personal visions and preferences. In doing this, rather than the true and the whole, we create caricatures and distortions of His character - false Christs made in our own images - and are left with no mystery as to why He would say we must deny ourselves daily in order to follow Him.”
― Criss Jami

“When we first read about the image of God in people in Genesis 1, we have as yet heard nothing about God as redeemer or the God of providence or the covenant God or the God of moral truth. The one thing that we know about God is that he created the world. In its immediate narrative context, then, the doctrine of the image of God in people emphasizes that people, are, like God, creators.”
― Leland Ryken, The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

“The optimistic jump is a necessity because man is still created in the image of God, whatever he may say about himself, and as such he cannot go on living in meaninglessness.”
― Francis A. Schaeffer, The God Who Is There

“Lives did not add as integers, they added as infinites.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance