God Image Quotes - Page 5

• I am definitely questioning the atonement and trying to discover how we can see it in a different way. We've got this image of God who needs some sort of flesh, some sort of blood, that needs some sort of vengeance to pay for sin. My experience of a loving God who's asked me to love my enemies - this isn't a God that demands something before you are accepted. I think Jesus died because Jesus was inclusive. God is inclusive. I think that the idea of God somehow being separated from us was more man's idea.

  Jay Bakker

  Jesus, Men, Thinking

  "Jay Bakker Talks Faith, Doubt and Where the Church Has Gone Wrong". Interview with Nicola Menzie, www.christianpost.com. February 14, 2013.

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• It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate from God or from the unconscious. We cannot tell whether God and the unconscious are two different entities. Both are border-line concepts for transcendental contents. But empirically it can be established, with a sufficient degree of probability, that there is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Two, Special

  "Psychology and religion: West and East".

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• Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God. Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God. Beloved are Israel, for unto them was given the desirable Torah

  Rabbi Akiva

  Children, Men, Israel

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• Do we get what we want? Yes, we get what we want. God is that
  loving. If we want isolation, despair, and the right to be our own
  god, God graciously grants us that option. If we insist on using our
  God-given pwer to make the world in our image, God allows us that
  freedom; we have the kind of license to do that.that's how love
  works. It cant be forced, manipulated, or coerced. It always leaves
  room for the other to decide. God says yes, we can have what we want,
  because love wins.

  Rob Bell

  Winning, Yes We Can, Despair

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• I go through life as a transient on his way to eternity, made in the image of God but with that image debased, needing to be taught how to meditate, to worship, to think.

  Donald Coggan

  Thinking, Way, Taught

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• The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.

  Carl Jung

  Unique, Self, Essence

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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• At times many of us let that enemy of achievement--even the culprit 'self-defeat'--dwarf our aspirations, smother our dreams, cloud our vision, and impair our lives. The enemy's voice whispers in our ears, 'You can't do it.' 'You're too young.' 'You're too old.' 'You're nobody.' This is when we remember that we are created in the image of God. Reflection on this truth provides a profound sense of strength and power.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dream, Reflection, Clouds

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• It is up to each of us to search for and build upon the gifts which God has given. We must remember that each of us is made in the image of God, that there are no unimportant persons. Everyone matters to God and to his fellowmen.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Matter, Remember, Made

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• Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud decided that when they stopped believing in such a being they had therefore stopped believing in God, so many who were taught to think of hell as a literal underground location full of worms and fire...decided that when they stopped believing in that, so they stopped believing in hell. The first group decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of God, they must be atheists. The second decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of hell, they must be universalists.

  N. T. Wright

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

  "Surprised by Hope". Book by N. T. Wright, 2007.

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• So even as we see the horror of death, may we be reminded that in the end, love wins. Mercy triumphs. Life is more powerful than death. And even those who have committed great violence can have the image of God come to life again within them as they hear the whisper of love. May the whisper of love grow louder than the thunder of violence. May we love loudly.

  Shane Claiborne

  Powerful, Winning, May

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.205, Harper Collins

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• The bible says that all people, not just believers, possess part of the image of God; that is why murder and abortion are wrong.

  Rick Warren

  People, Abortion, Murder

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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

  William Gurnall

  Weapons, Hell, Demon

  William Gurnall (2015). “Daily Readings from The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare”, p.40, Moody Publishers

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• I am sure that all people know deep down inside that the little child in the mother's womb is a human being from the moment of conception, created in the image of God to love and be loved. Let us pray that nobody will be afraid to protect that little child, to help that little child to be born. Jesus said: 'If you receive a little child in my name, you receive me.'

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Jesus, Children

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• It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and end up rejecting not the real God but their own erroneous and stereotypical image of God. Frequently this is because they have thought of God solely in terms of thunderings at Sinai without pondering substance. . . .

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Religious, Real, Understanding

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• In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God's sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil's gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die... Woman, you are the gate to hell.

  Tertullian

  Sex, Children, Pain

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• Strive to make every person feel special. After all, every person you meet is made in the image of God.

  Joel Osteen

  God, Christian, Religious

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Christianity is not just involved with "salvation", but with the total man in the total world. The Christian message begins with the existence of God forever, and then with creation. It does not begin with salvation. We must be thankful for salvation, but the Christian message is more than that. Man has a value because he is made in the image of God.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Men, Being Thankful

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2009). “Art and the Bible”, p.89, InterVarsity Press

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Order, Perfection

  "Pascal's Pensées: Selections".

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• The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Beautiful, Men, Squares

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• There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real "you." All the gods are little beings to you, all the ideas of God and Father in heaven are but your own reflection. God Himself is your image. “God created man after His own image." That is wrong. Man creates God after his own image. That is right. Throughout the universe we are creating gods after our own image. We create the god and fall down at his feet and worship him; and when this dream comes, we love it !

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Father, Real

  "The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda".

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• The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is to this image that the life of the disciples must be conformed; in other words, they must be conformed to his death (Phil 3.10, Rom 6.4) The Christian life is a life of crucifixion (Gal 2.19) In baptism the form of Christ's death is impressed upon his own. They are dead to the flesh and to sin, they are dead to the world, and the world is dead to them (Gal 6.14). Anybody living in the strength of Christ's baptism lives in the strength of Christ's death.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Baptism, World

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• Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.

  Walter Lang

  Men, Crowns, Creation

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• [Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself against the social injustices which insult God the Creator, seeks to protect human beings from oppression and longs to liberate them… it protests against every authoritarian regime, whether of the left or of the right, which discriminates against minorities, denies people their civil rights, forbids the free expression of opinions or imprisons people for their views alone.

  John Stott

  Christian, Rights, Views

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• The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and the indivisible dignity of each human person made in the image of God.

  Helen Prejean

  Religious, Heart, Compassion

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• In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.

  Walter Lang

  Sight, World, Christ

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