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• He who is insolent towards men is insolent towards God... Respect in man the grand, inestimable image of God and be forbearing towards the faults and errors of fallen man, so that God may be forbearing towards your own.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Men, Errors

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• We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.

  John Eldredge

  Lying, Adventure, True Life

  John Eldredge (2007). “Desire: The Journey We Must Take to Find the Life God Offers”, p.165, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Children, Parenting, Men

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• It's the fact that your body and your personality are not God. God is you. But you can't say you are God just as the ocean is all the waves, but you can't say one wave is the ocean. And so you manifest God in a way that you don't understand. Man himself is the image of God, but he doesn't see that image in himself. And you need to meditate, and there will come your answer, not looking in the mirror.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Ocean, Men, Mirrors

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• The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God. We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there. Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away

  Bill W.

  Wisdom, Real, Lying

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• Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish reverie. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Essence, Evil

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• God says "This is what I would love you to be, but I am not going to constrain you. I want it to be your choice." And it is a fantastic thing because even at the moment when I am making the choice to reject God, I would depend from moment to moment, you know that beautiful image of God creating by breathing God's breath into this lump of clay, making it a human being.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Love You, Creating

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• If all are created in the divine image, then our images of God must be fluid and multifarious.

  Judith Plaskow

  God, Divine, Fluid

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• My love for you is the sole image / Of God a human is allowed.

  Else Lasker-Schuler

  My Love For You, Sole, Humans

  Else Lasker-Schüler (2002). “Selected Poems”, Green Integer Books

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• I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history.

  Russell D. Moore

  Believe, Thinking, Looks

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• The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.

  William Dean Howells

  Giving, Water, Cups

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• Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

  Stephen King

  Falling In Love, Fear, Home

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.454, Hachette UK

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• To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility. You ask, 'How might we achieve these goals?' I answer, 'By getting a true perspective of who we really are!' We are sons and daughters of a living God in whose image we have been created. Think of that truth: 'Created in the image of God!' We cannot sincerely hold this conviction without experiencing a profound new sense of strength and power, even the strength to live the commandments of God, the power to resist the temptations of Satan.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Daughter, Disappointment, Humility

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• Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature - one whose morphe (form) is theos - God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them.

  Huston Smith

  Heart, Eye, Faith Religion

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• By being peaceful, quiet, and receptive, you pattern yourself in the image of God, and you regain the power of your Source.

  Wayne Dyer

  God, Peaceful, Patterns

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2013). “The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection”, p.52, Hay House, Inc

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• We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, May, Idol Worship

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.33, editionNEXT.com

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• To glorify God is not just to do so in religious worship, singing praise and enacting the traditional rites of the church. To glorify God is to reveal his character by being who we were created to be-the embodiment of the image of God in human form.

  James W. Sire

  Religious, Character, Singing

  James W. Sire (2011). “The Universe Next Door (Large Print 16pt)”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The question is not: do we believe in God? but rather: does God believe in us? And the answer is: only an unbeliever could have created our image of God; and only a false God could be satisfied with it.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Believe, Doe, Answers

  Kenneth Patchen (1961). “The Journal of Albion Moonlight”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand, we should not go to the opposite extreme of seeing them romantically. To do either is to fail to understand who men really are--creatures made in the image of God but fallen.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Eye, Men, Views

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of spirituality”

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• What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

  Demosthenes

  Love, Justice, Truth And Justice

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• How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form?

  Marcus Borg

  Female, Form, Ifs

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• Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.

  John Calvin

  Love, Hate, Blessing

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• Do you not know that you are Eve? The judgment of God upon this sex lives on in this age; therefore, necessarily the guilt should live on also. You are the gateway of the devil; you are the one who unseals the curse of that tree, and you are the first one to turn your back on the divine law; you are the one who persuaded him whom the devil was not capable of corrupting; you easily destroyed the image of God, Adam. Because of what you deserve, that is, death, even the Son of God had to die.

  Tertullian

  Sex, Son, Law

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• How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?

  Michael Bassey

  Men, Convinced

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• The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Running, Dream

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.170, Harvard University Press

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