So we speak of a Black God, Mother God, Worker God.
This de-mystifies what's been passed on to us! In our process of organization and liberation of our people, it's important to meet a God who is more like us. (Silvia Regina de Lima Silva, p. 105)

Mev Puleo

Mots clés image-of-god liberation-theology



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Darkness entered into, darkness realized, is the point of departure for all profound expressions of Christian hope. 'Meaningless darkness' becomes 'revelatory darkness' when it is confronted by the courage of a thoughtfulness and hope that is born of faith's quest for truth.

Douglas John Hall

Mots clés truth faith sin image-of-god



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The author recognizes the power of the persecuting tribe referring to members of hers consistently as "snakes" or "roaches". This dehumanizing language, she realizes, seeps into the subconscious and makes it easier to forget that fellow humans were created in God's image.

Immaculée Ilibagiza

Mots clés words language image-of-god



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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.

A.W. Tozer

Mots clés depravity image-of-god brokeness



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To visualize that which doesn't exist, yet to believe with confidence that it can be realized, is truly something miraculous.

Richard D. Sagor

Mots clés confidence dreams human-nature human dream believe image-of-god imageo-dei



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Augustine taught that true freedom is not choice or lack of constraint, but being what you are meant to be. Humans were created in the image of God. True freedom, then, is not found in moving away from that image but only in living it out.

Augustine of Hippo

Mots clés freedom image-of-god



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Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us?

Fulton J. Sheen

Mots clés love god image-of-god



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People today are trying to hang on to the dignity of man, but they do not know how to, because they have lost the truth that man is made in the image of God. . . . We are watching our culture put into effect the fact that when you tell men long enough that they are machines, it soon begins to show in their actions. You see it in our whole culture -- in the theater of cruelty, in the violence in the streets, in the death of man in art and life.

Francis A. Schaeffer

Mots clés violence image-of-god



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We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

That is the unconsolable heartburn, the lifelong disquietude of having been made in the image of God.

Robert Farrar Capon

Mots clés hunger image-of-god



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The Bible's message is that you matter to God. Our response is that God should matter to us.

Dillon Burroughs

Mots clés god bible image-of-god



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