God Image Quotes - Page 8

• God looks at the world through the eyes of love. If we, therefore, as human beings made in the image of God, also want to see reality rationally, that is, as it truly is, then we, too, must learn to look at what we see with love.

  Roberta Bondi

  Love, Eye, Reality

  Roberta Bondi (1995). “Memories of God: Theological Reflections on a Life”

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• I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids.

  William P. Young

  Growing Up, Plato, Father

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• Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Function, Concerned

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• Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man is the same - the image of God.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Fall, Men

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• Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.

  Thomas Merton

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

  Thomas Merton (1966). “Raids on the Unspeakable”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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• But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look at the peoples five hundred years from now. I think you will find but few images of God, unless you want to profane the Almighty.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Thinking, Years

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Race, Goal

  Philip Yancey (2011). “Prayer”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state.

  Joseph Lowery

  Interesting, Damage, Done

  "Religious Reflections on the Death Penalty". Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in Washington, D.C., www.pewforum.org. June 5, 2001.

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• My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.

  Rob Bell

  People, Toxic, Pastor

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• Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Grace, May, Able

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• Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded--under torch and hammer and chisel--into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God.

  N.D. Wilson

  Fighting, Men, Battle

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.69, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We believe that all men and women are created in the image of God. We believe that we are all equally created. So the fact of the matter is that we should assume by default that we reject the support of those who do not support the theory, the notion, the fact, that all men are created equally.

  Tim Scott

  Believe, Men, Support

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think everybody needs healing. My understanding of human beings is that we were created in the image of God but we are all fallen, and Jesus died for us so that we can be redeemed. Every Christian is in a process of healing in some way. God's original creation was good, and in some ways fallen away from that. And in every area of our life we need to be healed and restored and to become more Christ-like.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Christian, Jesus, Healing

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Every man possesses that which is according to the image of God, for the gifts of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29). But only a few ? those who are virtuous and holy, and have imitated the goodness of God to the limit of human powers ? possess that which is according to the likeness of God.

  John of Damascus

  Christian, Men, Limits

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• Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us to explore His double revelation, in nature and Scripture, with the minds He has given us, and to go on in the development of a Christian mind to apply His marvellous revealed truth to every aspect of the modern and post-modern world.

  John Stott

  Christian, Mind, Development

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• Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.

  John Lennox

  Capacity, Given, Relationship With God

  John Lennox (2011). “Gunning for God: Why the New Atheists are Missing the Target”, p.28, Lion Books

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• By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven.

  John Rutledge

  Men, Heaven, Doing Good

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• Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.

  David Sylvester

  Stars, Renaissance, Warhol

  David Sylvester (1996). “About modern art: critical essays, 1948-96”, Vintage

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• I believe the word "infidel" is not particular to any religion.  I believe we are all created in the image of God, in fact, we are all God, or at one with God, at our deepest core essence.  I think "infidel" refers to one who does not believe that God is none other than the Self. The "infidel" is the individual personality who identifies with the body and thoughts and not the Divine Indweller.  Therefore we are all "infidels" save the sacred few who have transcended the notion of the limited self.  The ancient mystics of all tradtitions have said this.

  Todd Rundgren

  Believe, Thinking, Self

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• Our very name for God's Creation is NATURE, for that is what Nature is. I shall define Nature for you in simple words. Nature is an electric wave thought image of God's nature, electrically projected from His formless and unconditioned ONE LIGHT into countless many forms of conditioned light which we call matter.

  Walter Russell

  Nature, Simple, Reality

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