Quotes About Image

That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now the black wolf was telling the girl a grave secret. That man was an animal too.

It's amazing what a spray-on tan will do.

She pulled the phone back to look at her photo, then, drawn by its ruthless intensity, kissed the image. Her lips left semen smears on the screen. Commodity fetishism at its finest.

In order to build a good reputation, you have to view your own actions in the same way that the people judging you will view them.

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

Before him stood his wife, and he knew this image was the one that would pass before his eyes at his moment of death.

Thomas Merton puts it this way: "Life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire."2

Insofar as Americans have a popular image of postal workers, it has become increasingly squalid. But this didn't just happen. It is the result of intentional policy choices. Since the 1980s, legislators have led the way in systematically defunding the post office and encouraging private alternatives as part of an ongoing campaign to convince Americans that government doesn't really work.

one of the most effective ways for a system of authority to tout its virtues is not to speak of them directly, but to create a particularly vivid image of their absolute negation—of what it claims life would be like in the total absence of, say, patriarchal authority, or capitalism, or the state.

Celebrity is the mother of pretension.

Being well known for being well-known did not necessarily imply intelligence.

Young man, Mr. Aubrey has made us so rich that we can now afford to worry about our image.

A legitimate government does not lose face easily, but an insecure government with little in the way of indigenous roots takes its image very seriously.

The goodness of things in the cosmos is not rooted most basically in human freedom or intelligence, and thus in human spirit, nor is it first granted by human freedom and intelligence. On the contrary, it is rooted in the creative freedom and intelligence of the creator, in which all things of the cosmos truly participate, and which they just so far "image," each in its own analogical, creaturely way.

Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.

I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'

You are not defined by your possessions, looks, or popularity. You are made in God's image.

Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.

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.

Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies

The world is a living image of God.

Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.

As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God.

If you give them a God made in their own image, I guarantee they'll accept Him. But He won't be the God who saves.