Quotes about Image

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

The fashion industry has a responsibility to represent a healthy image of women, but to start weighing them and putting them against a wall and making them feel like animals? No.

As an artist, we depend on our face as a source of living.

If I just cut out the food, I'd have a six-pack. I'd look like Matthew McConaughey.

The music became secondary to being rock stars.

It's dangerous that we can all paint a completely false picture of ourselves.

You are a human being made in God's likeness.

Our goal is the same: union with God in Christ, transformation into his image, and the freeing of our hearts from anything that stands in the way of Christ living in and through us.

The essence of being in God's image is our ability, like God, to stop. We imitate God by stopping our work and resting.

It is always true to some extent that we make our images of God. It is even truer that our image of God makes us. Eventually we become like the God we image. One of the most beautiful fruits of knowing the God of Jesus is a compassionate attitude towards ourselves. . . . This is why Scripture attaches such importance to knowing God. Healing our image of God heals our image of ourselves.12

Healing our image of God heals our image of ourselves.

Externally I had appeared kind, gracious, and patient, when inwardly I was nothing like that. I so wanted to present a polished image as a good Christian that I cut myself off from what was going on within myself. Unconsciously I had been thinking: I hope I am a good-enough Christian. Will this couple like us? Will they think we are okay? Will John give a good report of his visit to my pastor friend? Pretending was safer than honesty and vulnerability. The