Erich Fromm Quotes

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it any degradation to kneel side by side with a Negro in the house of our Heavenly Father.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.

The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

No mental disease diminishes the dignity of a person. The Church testifies that a mentally ill person, too, is a bearer of the image of God, remaining our brother who needs compassion and support

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

All men are equal at the foot of the Cross.

The color of the prisoner’s skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race — the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man.

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

Equality lies only in human moral dignity.

All are essentially equal in the eyes of God.

We believe that all men and women are created in the image of God. We believe that we are all equally created. So the fact of the matter is that we should assume by default that we reject the support of those who do not support the theory, the notion, the fact, that all men are created equally.

If all men are made in Gods 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?

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.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God

Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.

In a matrilineal society, a woman has basic rights that no one has to grant her but you can't take it away from her because the society is based on the concept that the lifegiver is equal to those she gave the life to. And that will remain... until you find a pregnant man.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?

When we are asleep, we are all equal.

God specifically created us to be like Him. This is impossible to wrap our minds around, but God created us like Him in some respect and then set us in the midst of this world to represent Him!

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.