Image Of God Quotes

“We are what we love. If we love God, in whose image we were created, we discover ourselves in him and we cannot help being happy: we have already achieved something of the fullness of being for which we were destined in our creation. If we love everything else but God, we contradict the image born in our very essence, and we cannot help being unhappy, because we are living a caricature of what we are meant to be.”
― Thomas Merton, A Book of Hours

“Every child born in the world must be considered as deriving its existence from God. The world is this new to him as it was to the first that existed, and his natural right in it is of the same kind.”
― Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

“Find out what faith is and how you can put it into practice.
Learn how to pray, and do it.
Discover what pride is, and get rid of it.
Develop a self-concept that is adequate and accurate.
Clarify your values.
Identify your talents.
Probe the fact, meaning, and use of your sexuality.
Face the fact that you engage in self-deception.
Reflect on truth that you are made in the image of God.
Use your spiritual gift.
Clear your conscience.
Feel deeply.
Enjoy life.
Face death.
Treat your body right.
Conquer the flesh.
Depend on the Holy Spirit.
Be humble.”
― J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities

“The ironic fact is that humanism which began with man's being central eventually had no real meaning for people. On the other hand, if one begins with the Bible's position that man is created by God and in the image of God, there is a basis for that person's dignity.”
― Francis August Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

“To disrespect a person made in the image and likeness of God is a lot worse than desecrating a flag. We should be offended and repulsed in the same way when God's image bearers are desecrated – abused, beaten, neglected, discriminated against, and not loved and taken care of as they should be.”
― James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

“It is no idle phrase that man was made in God's image. There is something worth saving in the worst of us, and out of this something a new man may be fashioned.”
― Philip José Farmer

“It does not matter what religion you are, so long as your conscience guides your words and actions. We are all reflections of God means we are all reflections of his image — which is LIGHT. There is only one God and that is the cosmic heart of the universe — whatever you choose to call him or her. The heart within us is what connects us to God (the heart of the universe). This super basic concept is preached in all religions. God is TRUTH and LIGHT, and only through your conscience do you connect to him. Any person who does not use their conscience is very disconnected from God. Because again, the language of light can only be decoded by the heart.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“This is, indeed, an insightful observation. The Archbishop [Joseph L. Berardin] insists that the natural resemblance between Christ and his priests must not stop merely with the fact that they share a common masculinity. Our question is, 'Why must it BEGIN there?' If the faithful cannot see Christ in a male who exemplifies no godlike virtues - humility, gentleness, and self-effacing service - can they not see him in a female who does? Indeed, if the priest acts 'in persona Christi,' not 'in masculinitate Christi,' then 'NATURAL resemblance' between Christ and the priest, it would seem, does not entail PHYSICAL, that is SEXUAL resemblance, but a resemblance which is natural to the SPIRITUAL order with which the worshiping congregation has to do. And in this order there is neither male nor female, even as there is neither Jew nor Greek. We would, therefore, conclude that since the Word was made flesh, as the apostle John has declared him (John 1:14), we rightly heed those who, in the flesh, symbolize his presence as they speak and act in his name. But we see no reason to add to what the apostle said by insisting that the Word was made MALE flesh, for both male and female are equally bearers of the divine image. And since God created humankind in his image, male AND female, we can only conclude that women as well as men should be ordained to the priesthood, because femaleness, like maleness, is a fitting symbol (sacramental sign) of Deity.”
― Paul King Jewett, The Ordination of Women: An Essay on the Office of Christian Ministry

“Creatures cannot image even the true God in biblical thinking generally speaking. Nevertheless - and here is the extraordinary exception - there ARE "gods" in the world. There ARE images of God placed in a temple. These images are none other than the human beings - ALL human beings - whom God has created and set in his temple-cosmos.”
― Iain Provan, Seriously Dangerous Religion: What the Old Testament Really Says and Why It Matters

“Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.”
― Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology: An Introduction

“What a man finds circa se or sub se is overwhelming in amount, what he finds in se is embarassing in its obscurity, but when from his own being he would obtain light as to what is supra se, then indeed he finds himself face to face with a dark and somewhat terrifying mystery. The trouble is that he is himself involved in the mystery. If, in any true sense, man is an image of God, how should he know himself without knowing God? But if it is really of God that he is an image, how should he know himself?”
― Étienne Gilson

“Besides God, nothing should live in man; besides God, nothing should in man put forth itself: nothing but God himself should appear, operate, will, love, think, speak, act and triumph in him. For if any thing else besides God does move and work in man, then man cannot be the image of God; but he is become the image of THAT whatever it be, which now moveth and worketh in him. If man therefore would continue the image of God, there is a necessity for him to surrender up himself wholly to God.”
― Johann Arndt, Johann Arndt: True Christianity

“The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You carry the image of God in you; other people also have the same image of God in them. You got love other people; you carry the same thing they also carry! Lead love lead!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“The voodoo worshipers go there to their idols sincerely and are healed. they ask for children and they get it.
GOD PERMITS IT. it is a miracle and they rejoice. i have seen it.
The idol didn't heal them. God did,. He permitted it.
Thank you Jesus !!!!
The imagine the 3 Hebrew children refuse to bow to was not voodoo it was Daniel (A holy man of God)
Holy Mary Images
Pillar of fire images
Prophet images
Altar
Prayer cloths
God wants me to believe Him without having to see anything.”
― Mary Tornyenyor

“I believe that people are holy because they’re made in the image of God, and a place can be holy when God is present—but no place is so holy that it’s worth shedding the blood of those who bear the image of God.”
― Jared Brock, A Year of Living Prayerfully

“War robs you of your humanity by putting you in a situation where you must either kill perfect strangers or be killed by them.”
― Kaname Harada

“Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving.”
― J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know: A Guide

“He is blunt in his moral assessment, brandishing a word that he says has gone missing in the broader poverty debate: “exploitation.”
― Jennifer Schuessler

“Jesus loved manhood so much, that He delighted to honour it; and since it is a high honour, and indeed, the greatest dignity of manhood, that Jesus is the Son of man,”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“Most Christian teachers would profess to believe that their students are made in the image of God. . .Classroom practices, however, often reveal that students are not treated accordingly. They are not challenged to think through issues and carefully examine the various positions relevant to the issue. Instead they are simply given information as correct answers to be remembered and reproduced on a test or in some other written form. Rather than create an art project that reveals something about the way they view the world, they are given specific instructions for completing each step of the project and criticized, for example, if the trees are not green. While verbally teaching Johnny that he is an important person, a teacher may employ a learning model or classroom discipline system that clearly treats him as on object to be shaped and controlled by a system. . . (p18)”
― Donovan L. Graham, Teaching Redemptively: Bringing Grace and Truth Into Your Classroom

“God’s image is in us all, so you can’t regard God when you disregard His people”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Never disregard people, regardless of their beliefs, because we all carry God’s likeness”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Always let people see a reflection of God in you”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The nature of God is in every man”
― Sunday Adelaja

“We all have a piece of God in us”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Religion should lay more emphasis on our relationship with people”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You cannot disregard people and hope to see God”
― Sunday Adelaja

“God will only reveal Himself to you when you begin to regard His people”
― Sunday Adelaja