Johannes Kepler Quotes

Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

God made us in His own image so that His image would be shown.

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

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

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.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

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.

God makes the world not out of necessity but by a divine Whim, and the world he makes is a whimsically romantic place. We're all crazy about each other because we're made in the image of Someone who's been crazy about us.

Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which would not be God himself?), supplied God with patterns for the creation of the world, and passed over to Man along with the image of God; and was not in fact taken in through the eyes.

It's the fact that your body and your personality are not God. God is you. But you can't say you are God just as the ocean is all the waves, but you can't say one wave is the ocean. And so you manifest God in a way that you don't understand. Man himself is the image of God, but he doesn't see that image in himself. And you need to meditate, and there will come your answer, not looking in the mirror.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

Man is indeed lost, but that does not mean that he is nothing. We must resist humanism, but to make a man a zero is not the right way to resist it ... [The] Christian position is that man is made in the image of God and even though he is now a sinner, he can do things that are tremendous - he can influence history for this life and the life to come, for himself and for others...From the biblical viewpoint, man is lost, but great.

The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.