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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
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If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what is in their part of the mirror? If every man was created equal and in the image of God, then how can any man claim that one race is better than another?Suzy Kassem
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Work is an instrument through which you build yourselfSunday Adelaja
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Work is an instrument for fulfilling purposeSunday Adelaja
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You only work right when you are fulfilling the essence of your creationSunday Adelaja
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Work becomes satisfaction when it is in the area of your callingSunday Adelaja
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Never abandon your calling or go outside your purposeSunday Adelaja
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Life is all about purposeSunday Adelaja
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Life is more than survivalSunday Adelaja
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You cannot understand God if you don’t understand peopleSunday Adelaja
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Your solution is in the next personSunday Adelaja
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When we fellowship with people, we fellowship with GodSunday Adelaja
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We open our hearts to receive God when we open our hearts to peopleSunday Adelaja
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You cannot receive God when you block people from your lifeSunday Adelaja
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Our fellowship is with God when we have mutual fellowship with one anotherSunday Adelaja
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Love requires fellowship and relationship with peopleSunday Adelaja
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When we relate with people, we indirectly relate with GodSunday Adelaja
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There is no one that should be disqualified from fellowshipping with GodSunday Adelaja
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We all deserve to have a relationship with GodSunday Adelaja
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You cannot fellowship with God when you disqualify another person from fellowshipping with youSunday Adelaja
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Love is the greatest attribute of GodSunday Adelaja
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We are all qualified to fellowship with God no matter our situation or conditionSunday Adelaja
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Never treat people with disdain, they all deserve your respect irrespective of their faith or religionSunday Adelaja
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Life is about pursuing the essence of creationSunday Adelaja
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God uses His people as instruments for breakthroughSunday Adelaja
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The purpose of life is fulfilling the essence of your creationSunday Adelaja
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Everything in existence has a purposeSunday Adelaja
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We get distracted through employment and rarely have time to discover our true selvesSunday Adelaja
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Employment is a vicious cycleSunday Adelaja
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Stop whatever is hindering you and discover who you areSunday Adelaja
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The first thing to do after you get fired is to discover GodSunday Adelaja
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Open your eyes to new opportunitiesSunday Adelaja
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Work is designed to be in your own field of callingSunday Adelaja
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Work is designed to be a means of fulfilling your destinySunday Adelaja
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Work is a means to fulfill your heavenly mandateSunday Adelaja
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Work is not about survival aloneSunday Adelaja
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Work to fulfill your callingSunday Adelaja
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The nature of God is in every manSunday Adelaja
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We all have a piece of God in usSunday Adelaja
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Religion should lay more emphasis on our relationship with peopleSunday Adelaja
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You cannot disregard people and hope to see GodSunday Adelaja
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God will only reveal Himself to you when you begin to regard His peopleSunday Adelaja
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Man is not made for the Sabbath. Rather, the Sabbath is made for manSunday Adelaja
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Humans are the world’s greatest treasureSunday Adelaja
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Be obligated to people only in mutual loveSunday Adelaja
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To celebrate man is to celebrate GodSunday Adelaja
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When you pay attention to man, God also reciprocates with His attentionSunday Adelaja
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Man is the centrality of God’s purpose on earthSunday Adelaja
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We cannot see God unless we respect peopleSunday Adelaja
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It is only when you study and understand people that you begin to see God’s principles in themSunday Adelaja
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God’s image is in us all, so you can’t regard God when you disregard His peopleSunday Adelaja
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Never disregard people, regardless of their beliefs, because we all carry God’s likenessSunday Adelaja
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Always let people see a reflection of God in youSunday Adelaja
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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
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It does not matter what religion you are, so long as your conscience guides your words and actions. We are all reflections of God means we are all reflections of his image – which is LIGHT. There is only one God and that is the cosmic heart of the universe – whatever you choose to call him or her. The heart within us is what connects us to God (the heart of the universe). This super basic concept is preached in all religions. God is TRUTH and LIGHT, and only through your conscience do you connect to him. Any person who does not use their conscience is very disconnected from God. Because again, the language of light can only be decoded by the heart.Suzy Kassem
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When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image of God. One of the primary laws of human life is that you become like what you worship; what’s more, you reflect what you worship not only to the object itself but also outward to the world around. Those who worship money increasingly define themselves in terms of it and increasingly treat other people as creditors, debtors, partners, or customers rather than as human beings. Those who worship sex define themselves in terms of it (their preferences, their practices, their past histories) and increasingly treat other people as actual or potential sex objects. Those who worship power define themselves in terms of it and treat other people as either collaborators, competitors, or pawns. These and many other forms of idolatry combine in a thousand ways, all of them damaging to the image-bearing quality of the people concerned and of those whose lives they touch.N.T. Wright
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Most Christian teachers would profess to believe that their students are made in the image of God.Classroom practices, however, often reveal that students are not treated accordingly. They are not challenged to think through issues and carefully examine the various positions relevant to the issue. Instead they are simply given information as correct answers to be remembered and reproduced on a test or in some other written form. Rather than create an art project that reveals something about the way they view the world, they are given specific instructions for completing each step of the project and criticized, for example, if the trees are not green. While verbally teaching Johnny that he is an important person, a teacher may employ a learning model or classroom discipline system that clearly treats him as on object to be shaped and controlled by a system. (p18) .Donovan L. Graham
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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
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Jesus loved manhood so much, that He delighted to honour it; and since it is a high honour, and indeed, the greatest dignity of manhood, that Jesus is the Son of man,Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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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
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We are what we love. If we love God, in whose image we were created, we discover ourselves in him and we cannot help being happy: we have already achieved something of the fullness of being for which we were destined in our creation. If we love everything else but God, we contradict the image born in our very essence, and we cannot help being unhappy, because we are living a caricature of what we are meant to be.Thomas Merton
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What a man finds circa se or sub se is overwhelming in amount, what he finds in se is embarassing in its obscurity, but when from his own being he would obtain light as to what is supra se, then indeed he finds himself face to face with a dark and somewhat terrifying mystery. The trouble is that he is himself involved in the mystery. If, in any true sense, man is an image of God, how should he know himself without knowing God? But if it is really of God that he is an image, how should he know himself? .Unknown
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If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what is in their part of the mirror? If every man was truly created equal, and in the image of God, then how can any man claim that one race is better than another, or that one nation is less deserving than another?Suzy Kassem
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Find out what faith is and how you can put it into practice. Learn how to pray, and do it. Discover what pride is, and get rid of it. Develop a self-concept that is adequate and accurate. Clarify your values. Identify your talents. Probe the fact, meaning, and use of your sexuality. Face the fact that you engage in self-deception. Reflect on truth that you are made in the image of God. Use your spiritual gift. Clear your conscience. Feel deeply. Enjoy life. Face death. Treat your body right. Conquer the flesh. Depend on the Holy Spirit. Be humble.J. Grant Howard
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This is, indeed, an insightful observation. The Archbishop [Joseph L. Berardin] insists that the natural resemblance between Christ and his priests must not stop merely with the fact that they share a common masculinity. Our question is, 'Why must it BEGIN there?' If the faithful cannot see Christ in a male who exemplifies no godlike virtues - humility, gentleness, and self-effacing service - can they not see him in a female who does? Indeed, if the priest acts 'in persona Christi, ' not 'in masculinitate Christi, ' then 'NATURAL resemblance' between Christ and the priest, it would seem, does not entail PHYSICAL, that is SEXUAL resemblance, but a resemblance which is natural to the SPIRITUAL order with which the worshiping congregation has to do. And in this order there is neither male nor female, even as there is neither Jew nor Greek. We would, therefore, conclude that since the Word was made flesh, as the apostle John has declared him (John 1:14), we rightly heed those who, in the flesh, symbolize his presence as they speak and act in his name. But we see no reason to add to what the apostle said by insisting that the Word was made MALE flesh, for both male and female are equally bearers of the divine image. And since God created humankind in his image, male AND female, we can only conclude that women as well as men should be ordained to the priesthood, because femaleness, like maleness, is a fitting symbol (sacramental sign) of Deity.Paul King Jewett
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One of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous creations is his painting of The Last Supper. It is said that while Leonardo da Vinci was working on the painting he got into an argument with a fellow painter. Leonardo da Vinci was so mad at this colleague that in anger and out of spite he painted that man's face as the face of Judas in his painting of the upper room Supper.But then, having completed that, Leonardo da Vinci turned to paint the face of Christ and he could not do it. It wouldn't come. He couldn't visualize it. He couldn't paint the face of Christ.He put down his paintbrush and went to find the man from whom he was estranged. He forgave him; they reconciled with one another; they both apologized. They both forgave. That very evening Leonardo da Vinci had a dream and in that dream he saw the face of Christ. He rose quickly from his bed and finished the painting and it became one of his greatest masterpieces. .Fred Andrea
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The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Human glory is not just found in what people were originally created to be — the image of dynamic God, spiritually functioning like him in the physical world. This glory is displayed even more powerfully in what they are now redeemed to be — the image of his Son, Jesus Christ.Jeremy Pierre
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Early on in the Bible story, we will discover the devil taking on the form of an animal. At the center of the Bible story, we will find God taking on the form of a man. The Son of God is the image of God, and so when He took flesh, it was in the form of a man, because man was made in the image of God.Colin S. Smith
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I believe that people are holy because they’re made in the image of God, and a place can be holy when God is present–but no place is so holy that it’s worth shedding the blood of those who bear the image of God.Jared Brock
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Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.Karl Barth
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We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.John Calvin
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We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.John Calvin
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The ironic fact is that humanism which began with man's being central eventually had no real meaning for people. On the other hand, if one begins with the Bible's position that man is created by God and in the image of God, there is a basis for that person's dignity.Francis A. Schaeffer
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A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.John Howard Griffin
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To disrespect a person made in the image and likeness of God is a lot worse than desecrating a flag. We should be offended and repulsed in the same way when God's image bearers are desecrated — abused, beaten, neglected, discriminated against, and not loved and taken care of as they should be.James MacDonald
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Every child born in the world must be considered as deriving its existence from God. The world is this new to him as it was to the first that existed, and his natural right in it is of the same kind.Thomas Paine
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The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are as a human being made in God's image.Elton Trueblood