Imago Dei Quotes

“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.”
― John Milton, Milton on Education

“One great reason why the rich in general have so little sympathy for the poor is because they so seldom visit them. Hence it is that one part of the world does not know what the other suffers. Many of them do not know, because they do not care to know: they keep out of the way of knowing it – and then plead their voluntary ignorance as an excuse for their hardness of heart.”
― John Wesley

“We should not regard what a man is and what he deserves: but we should go higher – that it is God who has placed us in the world for such a purpose that we be united and joined together. He has impressed his image in us and has given us a common nature, which should incite us to providing one for the other. The man who wishes to exempt himself from providing for his neighbors should face himself and declare that he no longer wishes to be a man, for as long as we are human creatures we must contemplate as in a mirror our face in those who are poor, despised, exhausted, who groan under their burdens . .”
― John Calvin

“...give from the heart since each person is the very icon of God incarnate in the world.”
― Mother Maria Skobtsova

“[...] Like the God in whose image people are made, people are irreducible. There's always more to a person - more stories, more life, more complexities - than we know. The human person, when viewed properly, is unfathomable, incalculable, and dear. Perversion always says otherwise.”
― David Dark, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything: Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned?

“What is the Imago Dei, the Image of God? It’s a hive. God is the total hive, and we are all the hive cells. We are all mind bees, buzzing in our Singularity.”
― Thomas Stark, Base Reality: Ultimate Existence

“The Lord justified and sanctified the line of His forefathers. Likewise, every one of us, if we follow Christ, can justify ourselves in our individual being, having restored the Divine image in us through total repentance, and by so doing can help to justify our own forefathers. We bear in ourselves the legacy of the sins of our ancestors; and, by virtue of the ontological unity of the human race, healing for us means healing for them, too. We are so interjoined that man does not save himself alone.”
― Sophrony Sakharov, His Life Is Mine

“[...] The little everyday neglect of imagining other people well can add up to a lifetime of flawed, perverted vision, an expenditure of soul in a waste of emotionalism.”
― David Dark, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything: Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned?

“Do you dishonour his house by acts of violence more becoming the wolves of the mountains, than beings to whom the great Creator has given a form after His own likeness, and an immortal soul to be saved by penance and repentance?”
― Walter Scott, Anne of Geierstein

“If God made man in His image, and man made me in the image of man, am I in possession of the Imago Hominis?

Am I, for the lack of a more precise term, a human being like you?

- Troy Salcedo”
― Malcolm F. Cross, Mouse Cage

“God has already had the last word on who is deserving of respect and whose rights are worthy of being fought for and protected.”
― Jasmine L. Holmes, Crowned with Glory: How Proclaiming the Truth of Black Dignity Has Shaped American History

“Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving.”
― J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know: A Guide

“[...] Like calling someone a fool or an idiot. It's one of those things Jesus tells us never to do. Calling someone a pervert without acknowledging our own inner pervert might lead to the destruction - or at least the perversion - of our own soul. We become perverts in our determination to catch a pervert.”
― David Dark, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything: Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned?

“Because people made in the image of God were made to stand on equal footing alongside each other before the God of heaven. They were made to bow to Him and Him alone, not made to bow to and be cowed by the brutality of their fellow image bearers. And whether in a pamphlet, in a newspaper, in a speech, in the Bible, or from the voice of God Himself booming from heaven, this knowledge cannot be hidden from image bearers forever.”
― Jasmine L. Holmes, Crowned with Glory: How Proclaiming the Truth of Black Dignity Has Shaped American History

“God's will for our lives is that we conform to the image of Christ, whose incarnation shows us humanity perfectly conformed to the image of God.”
― Jen Wilkin, In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character

“How should the knowledge that God is ______ change the way I live?”
― Jen Wilkin, In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character

“Only God is infinite, incomprehensible, self-existent, eternal, immutable, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, and sovereign. When we strive to become like him in any of these traits, we set ourselves up as his rival. Human beings created to bear the image of God aspire instead to become like God (...) Like our father Adam and our mother Eve, we long for that which is only intended for God, rejecting our God-given limits and craving the limitlessness we foolishly believe we are capable of wielding and entitled to possess.”
― Jen Wilkin, In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character

“Growing in holiness means growing into being loving, just, good, merciful, gracious, faithful, truthful, patient, and wise. It means learning to think, speak, and act like Christ every hour of every day that God grants us to walk this earth as the redeemed.”
― Jen Wilkin, In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character