Sermon Quotes on Creation Of Humanity

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Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
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Everything in the universe is all jumbled together. So God begins to do some creative separating: he separates light from darkness, day from night, water from land, the sea creatures from the land cru...
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Teresa of Avila
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Exodus 25:8, Ezekiel 36:26-27, Jeremiah 29:13, John 14:23, Psalm 139:23-24
Believe the incredible truth that the Beloved has chosen for his dwelling place the core of your own being because that is the single most beautiful place in all of creation.
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Jonathan Edwards
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Psalm 28:7, Isaiah 12:3, Psalm 16:11, Psalm 37:4, Romans 37:4, Romans 15:13
God created man for nothing else but happiness.
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Timothy Keller
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Genesis 1:26-27, Deuteronomy 7:7-9, Isaiah 43:7 , John 17:24, Ephesians 1:4-5, Psalm 8:3-5
The only reason God would have had for creating us was not to get the cosmic love and joy of relationship (because he already had that) but to share it.
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C. S. Lewis
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God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.
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Thomas Merton
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Job 38:1-7, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Genesis 32:22-32, Luke 1:26-38, Matthew 16:13-17, Psalm 8:3-4
It is as if in creating us God asked a question, and in awakening us to contemplation He answered the question, so that the contemplative is at the same time, question and answer.
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Therese of Lisieux
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Genesis 3:20, Exodus 2:10, Proverbs 31:, Psalm 131:2, 1 Thessalonians 2:7
The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.
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Bruce Waltke
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God created [mankind] and therefore only God can reveal to us our identity and function. Without this biblical revelation, we are lost in a maze of confusion.
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Hermann Bavinck
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- The Image of God
So the whole human being is image and likeness of God, in soul and body, in all human faculties, powers, and gifts. Nothing in humanity is excluded from God’s image; it stretches as far as our humanit...
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John Polkinghorne
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- Science and Religion
I believe that a full understanding of this remarkable human capacity for scientific discovery ultimately requires the insight that our power in this respect is the gift of the universe’s Creator who,...
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Norman Wirzba
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Gardening, besides being a practical, life-nurturing task, is also always a spiritual activity. In it people attempt to make visible and tasty what is good, beautiful, and even holy. Every act of gard...
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Norman Wirzba
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- Gardening
- Gardens
Gardening is never simply about gardens. It is work that reveals the meaning and character of humanity, and is an exercise and demonstration of who we take ourselves and creation to be. It is the most...
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Mike Cosper
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- Garden of Eden
- The Temple
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Genesis 3:8
The garden itself was more than an agricultural project. It was a meeting place for God and man, where God “walked” among humanity (Gen. 3:8). It was the first temple, the first sacred space, set apar...
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Meredith G. Kline
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The city is not to be regarded as an evil invention of ungodly fallen man... The ultimate goal set before humanity at the very beginning was that human- culture should take city-form... there should b...
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John D. Zizioulas
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The human being is defined through otherness. It is a being whose identity emerges only in relation to other beings, God, the animals and the rest of creation.
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The Onion
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Nothing is more precious than teeming, overabundant resource-destroying human life. (For humor/contrast)
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Eugene Peterson
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The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lor...
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C. S. Lewis
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- The Ascension of Christ
- New Creation
He goes 'to prepare a place for us.’ This presumably means that He is about to create that whole new Nature which will provide the environment or conditions for His glorified humanity and, in Him,...
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Jürgen Moltmann
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[Faith] sees in the resurrection of Christ not the eternity of heaven, but the future of the very earth on which his cross stands. It sees in him the future of the very humanity for which he died. Tha...
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N. T. Wright
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God made humans for a purpose: not simply for themselves, not simply ply so that they could be in relationship with him, but so that through them, as his image-bearers, he could bring his wise, glad, ...
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C. S. Lewis
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- New Creation
- Creatures
God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
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- Humanity
- Glory
The glory of God is a human being fully alive
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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I am a human being, not a human doing.
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E. F. Schumacher
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Matthew 5:48, 1 John 3:2-3, Galatians 5:16-17, Philippians 3:13-14, Colossians 3:1-2, Ephesians 4:22-24
The scholastics used to say: Homo non proprie humanus sed superhumanus est —which means that to be properly human, you must go beyond the merely human.
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Leon Kass
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- Bread
- Human Nature
Man becomes human with the eating of bread.
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Liuan Huska
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Being fully human is to inhabit the wild mysteries of our bodies and trust that, because Christ was a body, and still is a body, we don’t need to fear this place. We can say, it is good, because Chris...
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Glen Scrivener
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- Humanity
God’s first promise was for the man of heaven to descend and save us. Humanity’s plan is to ascend to heaven and “make a name for ourselves.
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Clay Scroggins
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Kurt Vonnegut famously said, “I am a human being, not a human doing.” Vonnegut was an avowed atheist and president of the American Humanist Association, but his observation parallels the orthodox Chri...
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Iris Murdoch
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- Humanity
Man is a creature who makes pictures of himself, and then comes to resemble that picture.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The whole concept of the “image of God ” is the idea that all men have something within them that God injected. .. . And this gives [man] a uniqueness, it gives him worth, it gives him dignity. And we...