Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

Man made God in his own image.

Man alone is made in the image of God.

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.

I can't bring myself to believe in a God with a personality like my own. I base that on the paucity of lightning attacks on people who deserve it.

Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that's a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and he squeezes it. I think 'Freak Show' has a lot to do with the entertainment industry and the way we entertain ourselves: the objectification of people and the lengths we'll go for our own amusement.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Each generation has to create the image of God that works for it.

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.

It started getting too crazy with 'Earth A.D.' The concepts started becoming too brutal and violent. It was less about fiction and more about the real world, the past, present, and future. I think a lot of people got freaked out by that.

I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not interested in a kind of contemptuous satirical vision; I try always, even when I'm knowingly being satirical, to also be humane, but I mean, let's face it: there's plenty in American life to make fun of, and we all participate in it.

If, as many people believe, there is a God, and that God made us in his own image, then of course we are distinct from nature, just as He is.

Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.

As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

The only thing that separates us from the animals... is we have pornography.

Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.

Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made.