Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

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

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

Man made God in his own image.

The god who presides over the Judeo-Christian belief system bears a disquieting resemblance to those imperfect creations known as human beings. This suggests that either he really did fashion us in his own image or we fashioned him in ours.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

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

Men create the gods in their own image.

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.

It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.

Hey, let's get serious... God knows what he's doin' He wrote this book here And the book says: 'He made us all to be just like Him', So... If we're dumb... Then God is dumb... (And maybe even a little ugly on the side)

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

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.

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

Man alone is made in the image of God.

We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.

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

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him

If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all …. whether there exists a God or not ... men's moral duties will always be the same so long as they possess their own nature

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. A god who created man after his own image, and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited to him.

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.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.