Quotes About Image of God

The Deuteronomy reason for Sabbath-keeping is that our ancestors in Egypt went for four hundred years without a vacation (Deuteronomy 5:15). Never a day off. The consequence: they were no longer considered persons but slaves. Hands. Work units. Not persons created in the image of God but equipment for making brick and building pyramids. Humanity was defaced. — Eugene Peterson

It is always true to some extent that we make our images of God. It is even truer that our image of God makes us. Eventually we become like the God we image. One of the most beautiful fruits of knowing the God of Jesus is a compassionate attitude towards ourselves. . . . This is why Scripture attaches such importance to knowing God. Healing our image of God heals our image of ourselves.12

The image of God is your final obstruction to a religious experience.

Such an image of one's god becomes a final obstruction, one's ultimate barrier. You hold on to your own ideology, your own little manner of thinking, and when a larger experience of God approaches, an experience greater than you are prepared to receive, you take flight from it by clinging to the image in your mind. This is known as preserving your faith.

Both sexes are equal. Both bear the image of God and are equal in their standing and in their spiritual gifts for service.

To be a human being is to be one who is fashioned in the image of God, who is the point of reference in all relationships.

The image of God is not like an image permanently stamped on a coin; it is more like an image reflected in a mirror. That is, human beings are created for life in relationships that mirror or correspond to God's own life in relationship.

As John of the Cross points out with devastating accuracy and precision, the disorders in our heart, unless they are healed and purified by the action of the one true God, will leave us enslaved to our passions and unable to think clearly, decide wisely, and live in a way worthy of our dignity as bearers of the image of God.

Man's glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in 'his goodness,' for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

We believe that all men are the spirit children of God, created in his image. This concept is supported by the Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.

Man alone is made in the image of God.

You women are daughters of God. You are precious. You are made in the image of our Heavenly Mother.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Moreover God hath ordained man in this world, as it were, the very image of himself, to the intent, that he, as it were a god on earth, should provide for the wealth of all creatures.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own 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.

It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.

God made us in His own image so that His image would be shown.

From all those created in the image of God there is something to be received, and to them something to be given.

Everyone has a spark of divinity inside them. After all, we were created in the image of God.