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“Let’s pretend that you were the artist who painted that picture.” “OK,” he said, looking a little uptight. I motioned to the picture and yelled, “What a stupid-looking painting! Those colors are terrible! That thing is so ugly!” I paused for a minute. “Now,” I said to him, “does demeaning the painting somehow glorify the artist?” “No!” he answered. Now I had him cornered, so I continued, “Not only is God Himself the one who painted us, so to speak, but Jesus was the one who sat in the chair and modeled for the masterpiece! Remember, we were made in God’s image and in His likeness. We didn’t create ourselves. God created us. We are the work of His hands. When we tear ourselves down, we aren’t being humble; we are being stupid!” He looked stunned. He said, “I have three theological degrees, yet I’ve never been taught this.”
― Kris Vallotton, The Supernatural Ways of Royalty: Discovering Your Rights and Privileges of Being a Son or Daughter of God

“That evolution should select for larger brains may seem to us like, well, a no-brainer. We are so enamoured of our high intelligence that we assume that when it comes to cerebral power, more must be better. But if that were the case, the feline family would also have produced cats who could do calculus, and frogs would by now have launched their own space program. Why are giant brains so rare in the animal kingdom?”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The truth is that it is neither pride to recognize our strengths nor humility to demean them. This kind of false humility keeps the saints in darkness and results in us never stepping into our destinies. Remember what we just saw in the previous chapter? Romans 3:23 says that we, “fell short of the glory of God.” Though we missed it, we were made for glory. Thankfully, when Jesus died on the cross, He didn’t just die so He could forgive our sins. He died so we could be restored to our original purpose. The price that Jesus paid on the Cross determined the value of the people He purchased. We were created to share God’s glory and bring Him glory. After all, who is greater—a king over a bunch of bozos, or a king over a great army of confident soldiers who take pride in serving their king? Isn’t it true that the greatness of the King’s subjects actually glorifies the King Himself?”
― Kris Vallotton, The Supernatural Ways of Royalty: Discovering Your Rights and Privileges of Being a Son or Daughter of God

“When we came to Christ, it was humility to honestly assess ourselves as sinners. To go back and say that’s still who we are is to deny what Christ did for us. Doing that is no longer humbling ourselves; it’s undercutting the resurrection power God has given us to live like Him.”
― Kris Vallotton, The Supernatural Ways of Royalty: Discovering Your Rights and Privileges of Being a Son or Daughter of God