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Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image QUOTES

Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image QUOTES

1 " Your life has intrinsic value, not simply because of who you are as an individual, but because of who He is as your God. "

― Hannah Anderson , Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image

2 " The One who made us is the One who guides who we become. "

― Hannah Anderson , Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image

3 " We act out of love for God; and our obedience actually causes us to love more because it brings us into harmony with His nature and our own. "

― Hannah Anderson , Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image

4 " One of the most compelling things about this majestic God, this God who existed before the worlds began, is that He understands our weakness. As David sang in the Judean hillsides, “He knows our frame and remembers that we are dust.” So much so, that even back in the emptiness of the cosmos, He knew that we would never be able to truly seek Him for ourselves. He knew that in our confusion, we would stumble about in the darkness, unable to find Him and unable to understand ourselves. He knew this, and so in those moments before He laid the foundations of the earth, He planned a way that He would find us. "

― Hannah Anderson , Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image

5 " The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.”—Irenaeus "

― Hannah Anderson , Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image

6 " By placing His image in us, God assumes an extra measure of ownership and responsibility for our lives. We are His brand, His trademark. "

― Hannah Anderson , Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image

7 " Thankfully, He's the kind of God who welcomes our questions, who can wrestle with us through the confusion and still bless us in the process. He is the kind of God who desires true faith, even at its weakest points, and looks for mustard seeds instead of mountains. He is the kind of God who delights in the plea, "Help my unbelief" and then holds on to us because we can't hold on to Him anymore. He is the kind of God who can handle all our doubt, all our fear, all our questions if we will simply commit to letting Him. "

― Hannah Anderson , Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image

8 " In other words, we sin whenever we act in a way that does not reflect His nature, whenever we are not glorious like He is glorious. "

― Hannah Anderson , Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image

9 " Peter, that hopeless, helpless wreck of man. Peter, who chided Jesus, who refused to let Him wash his feet, who denied Him in His most vulnerable hour. Who was so broken by his own faithlessness that he went away and wept. This same Peter invites us to take hope in a God who has “called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature.”7 In other words, your transformation is a sure thing. Your being made like Him will happen because He promises it. And so you can trust Him. You can take hope. And because you have hope, you can continue on. You can persevere. You can keep going because "

― Hannah Anderson , Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image

10 " In order to know who you are, you must first know who He is. "

― Hannah Anderson , Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image

11 " He is a God of power and love and wisdom, and as His image bearers, we must be women of power and love and wisdom as well. In order to be who we were created to be we must not only acknowledge the brokenness of this world, we must at the same time affirm that the love and power of God is stronger still. "

― Hannah Anderson , Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image

12 " As God transforms you to be more like Him, as your heart mirrors His more perfectly, you can expect two different things: (1) You should experience the ability to increasingly live as you were created to live, and (2) You should also feel deeper pain when you do not. And it is this very pain that confirms that you are in the process of changing. This pain helps you remember that you are no longer the person you once were. Even on our worst days, then, even on those days when you feel so out of sorts that you hardly know yourself, you must remember that this discomfort, these growing pains assure that you are made for more. "

― Hannah Anderson , Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image

13 " Faith does not pretend that it is easy to believe what God reveals about Himself. Faith does not push aside or deny the difficulties. Faith simply commits to taking the questions back to Him and believes that He will have the answers. "

― Hannah Anderson , Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image

14 " What if education-what if learning and thinking and knowing-is less about what you do with your knowledge than it is about the person you become in the process? What if learning is less about how to make a living and more about how to live? "

― Hannah Anderson , Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image

15 " Too often as women, we have restricted ourselves to the “pink” parts of the Bible. When we identify first and foremost as women, we can begin to believe that knowledge of ourselves will come primarily through passages that speak to women’s issues or include heroines like Ruth or Esther. But when we do this, when we craft our learning and discipleship programs around being “women,” we make womanhood the central focus of our pursuit of knowledge instead of Christ. "

― Hannah Anderson , Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image

16 " In Romans 3:23, Paul describes sin5 as coming “short of the glory of God.” In other words, we sin whenever we act in a way that does not reflect His nature, whenever we are not glorious like He is glorious. But rather than a condemnation of our humanity, this is a judgment of our fallenness—a judgment of how far we have come from the glory God originally meant for us! We were created for glory, to display the majesty of God’s nature in our own; but instead, we now reflect lesser glories. "

― Hannah Anderson , Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God's Image