Samuel Butler Quotes

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

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.

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

We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.

God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There should be no fear in love.

You do have a Dream. It's part of what it means to be human, created in the image of God.

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

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

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.

If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place for us to learn and create. Mankind is not yet ready for a perfect world. We do not know how to appreciate perfection.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.

My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally different that there was a God. He knit me together in my mother's womb. He made me special. He wanted to have a personal relationship with me.

Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.

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

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Did you ever think that your body is holy? You are a child of God. Your body is His creation.

What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.

God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings.

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.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get the kind of god we need; that is, a god after our own likeness.