“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.”
– Francis Schaeffer
“Culture-making is, in the end, a call to faith. In whose power do we trust? The best way to find out is to observe what we do with our power -and what we do with our powerlessness.”
– Andy Crouch
“We are God’s royal stewards, put here to develop the hidden potentials in God’s creation so that the whole of it may celebrate his glory.”
– Craig Bartholomew and Michael Goheen
“A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all.”
– Martin Luther
“Servant leadership is merely the application of the dynamic of the gospel to the task of leadership.”
- Klyne Snodgrass
“Here is a vision of the ultimate destiny of redeemed human beings, already anticipated in the present… The goal is the fulfillment of the task for which, according to Genesis 1 and 2, humans were made in the first place; the task to which, according to Exodus, Israel was called. It is the task of being the “royal priesthood,” the key middle term in the wise rule of creation by its creator and also in the praise that rises to that same creator from creation itself.”
– N.T. Wright
“Before he humbled himself, only the angels knew him. After he humbled himself, all human nature knew him. You see how his humbling of himself did not make him have less but produced countless benefits, countless deeds of virtue, and made his glory shine forth with greater brightness.”
– Chrysostom
– quotes from The Gospel Project, Fall 2013, “Bearing God’s Image”