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If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.


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If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
VOLTAIRE If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
VOLTAIRE If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

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VOLTAIRE God created us in his image throw his imagination
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God i...
THICH NHAT HANH If God created everything, and if man is created in God's image, and if man can dream a fate greater...
MICHAEL ANTHONY "I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
FRANK WEDEKIND Imagination is thee ability to creat witch god gave us in witch god himself created man in his image...
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.
AUBREY DE GREY If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER God and His Son are glorified personages. God the Father is our living Creator, and His Son, Jesus C...
JAMES E. FAUST God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God ...
G. C. LICHTENBERG God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God ...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.
MEIR SOLOVEICHIK After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and li...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for...
ALBERT EINSTEIN It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious...
EDITH SCHAEFFER Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious ...
ANDRE GIDE Not so. Man created God in man's image.
GREG SWARTZ The more we abide in Christ, the more His grace and power transform us into His image.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON God created mankind in His image and likeness, remember? For some reason, you people always forget y...
STEFAN EMUNDS God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and ...
JOHN PIPER How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Our message is of truth, love and faith in a peaceful, respectful manner. We are created by God in G...
JENNIFER HALL All right, Herr Stern, if God made man in His image, which race is most like him? Is a Pole more lik...
THOMAS KENEALLY We are created in God’s image
SUNDAY ADELAJA God intended Earth. God intended the waters. God intended you and me. We were created in the image a...
MARY MANIN MORRISSEY Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA A god who created man "after his own image", and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited t...
JOHANN MOST God made us all in his own image, yet not all of us are equal.
DUSTIN H. MATHENY God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There sh...
MARTIN O'MALLEY The vote demonstrates that we accept the notion that all human beings are created in the image of Go...
ALEXANDER M. SHAPIRO This team has more experience than this program has seen in awhile. I have to compliment the city's ...
BREEZE SCHULZE We have the ability to creat throw our imagination witch god gave to us in witch god himself created...
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA I tried to believe that there is a God, who created each of us in His own image and likeness, loves ...
GEORGE CARLIN God-fearing?! Why should man fear God? Human beings were created in the image of God. God is love, m...
TURYASINGURA NELSON DERRICK I hate man more than I hate god because man created god.
DIPAK F. PAWAR You do have a Dream. It's part of what it means to be human, created in the image of God.
BRUCE WILKINSON He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any m...
SAMUEL BUTLER He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any m...
SAMUEL BUTLER God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt H...
WALTER LANG We must teach compassion and tolerance and encourage kindness, selflessness, and loving acceptance o...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS You and I were created by God to be so much more than normal…Following the crowd is not a winning ...
TIM TEBOW The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to complimen...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in un...
DESMOND TUTU God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c...
JOHN PIPER We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who se...
JOHANN MOST Man made God in his own image...
ECKHART TOLLE God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme myste...
PHILIP YANCEY I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, fo...
CHARLES SPURGEON If He (God) is invisible, how does He know what He looks like?'
"The Torah tells us He has made...
NOAH GORDON God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, thr...
N.T. WRIGHT Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined,...
NEWT GINGRICH If God made us all in his own image, then God is insane, insecure, genocidal, ignorant, disobedient,...
CHRISTOPHER FEBVRE God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIRE We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other...
BILLY GRAHAM The current reorganization created more inefficiencies than the efficiencies that it was supposed to...
COUNCILMAN GARY OKINO You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the ...
ANNE LAMOTT If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is t...
MORRIS WEST I am sure that God has given all his time in making you, the remaining human race has been created i...
AMIT KALANTRI God created us to rule, to lead and use all His riches to establish His order
SUNDAY ADELAJA I would surmise that we must cherish the resources that God has given us to achieve a goal more than...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We created more opportunities than our opponents and this gives us confidence for the return leg.
CLARENCE SEEDORF God created many races wilier than men.
But it doesn't mean angels higher than us.
TOBA BETA God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us...
C.S. LEWIS We need an image change in our community here. If we don't build this today, in the future it'll cos...
COUNCILMAN FRANK LOPEZ You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all...
ANNE LAMOTT Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
ANTHONY DE MELLO If you take each step, as if it was your last. You would appreciate the world in all its glory and b...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world ...
HENRI NOUWEN In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at t...
ANN COULTER Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppe...
ORSON SCOTT CARD God has put somrthing noble and good into every heart His hand created.
MARK TWAIN We are beautiful because God created us that way
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adv...
JOHN ELDREDGE But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) And do these objectors mean to say that, because God has redeemed us from the curse of the law, ther...
HORATIUS BONAR God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffe...
DADA VASWANI Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than w...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our h...
SAINT BASIL You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates...
ANNE LAMOTT As a citizen of the world, I will not confine myself within the gates of one nation or religion. I w...
SUZY KASSEM In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God—truths we must...
JERRY BRIDGES If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what i...
SUZY KASSEM More ghosts have been created in bedrooms than anywhere else.
JONATHAN STROUD If god created this world for his amusement, doesn’t that make him Selfish?
JAI SINGH He has returned his medals, voluntarily.
CLEMENT RADCLIFFE He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than t...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than t...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY When the image of Nelson Mandela may be more familiar to us than the face of our next-door neighbour...
ANTHONY GIDDENS But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we ...
LEE GREENWOOD I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to aboli...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

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