The Dignity Revolution Quotes

“Much of today’s decline of Christian influence can be traced, not to secularism, but to the failure of significant sections of the church in the era of slavery and segregation. The salt of our witness lost its savor on the altar of racism. Still today, if we speak up about marriage or religious liberty but not about race, why should we think anyone should listen? If we are courageous concerning justice for those who are made in the image of God and live in the womb, but silent about justice for those who have been and still are systemically stripped of the dignity that is theirs as image-bearers as they live in our societies, then we should not be surprised to be charged with double standards.”
― Daniel Darling, The Dignity Revolution

“Racism focuses on the “otherness” more than on the “man.” It is elevating “my people” above “the other people.” It is the sin of individual pride writ across a larger canvas. It ascribes greater value to one group of image-bearers than another; it divides up groups of image-bearers according to the way they look or the history they have experienced or the culture they have created, as though these things are more fundamental to who we are and who “they” are than being made in God’s image. Racism is often driven by a fear of the “other,” but is rooted in an evil that usurps God as Creator and denies the humanity of our neighbors.”
― Daniel Darling, The Dignity Revolution

“God is calling all of us not just to see that people have dignity, but to act accordingly. Not just to know, but to do.”
― Daniel Darling, The Dignity Revolution: Reclaiming God's Rich Vision for Humanity

“In trying to become God, we actually become less than human.”
― Daniel Darling, The Dignity Revolution: Reclaiming God's Rich Vision for Humanity

“Every faithful act of service, every honest labor to make the world a better place, which seemed to have been forever lost and forgotten in the rubble of history, will be seen on that day [at the final resurrection] to have contributed to the perfect fellowship of God’s kingdom.” Amy Sherman”
― Daniel Darling, The Dignity Revolution: Reclaiming God's Rich Vision for Humanity

“We know that until Christ returns to fully restore and renew all things, we will never see Christian unity in its fullest richest expression. We will never see complete and total justice. But we can work for it, even as we fall short of it, because we know that one day we will experience it.”
― Daniel Darling, The Dignity Revolution: Reclaiming God's Rich Vision for Humanity

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Martin Luther King Jr.”
― Daniel Darling, The Dignity Revolution: Reclaiming God's Rich Vision for Humanity

“when Christians are seized by the biblical vision of human dignity, it has a dramatic impact on the rest of society.”
― Daniel Darling, The Dignity Revolution: Reclaiming God's Rich Vision for Humanity

“This image-restoring calling comes with, and requires, a new family: the church. No one can restore the image alone—only a people can do that, mirroring the original creation of human beings as male and female, the divine communion foreshadowed in the words ‘let us make,’ and the revelation of God as three in one. Whatever our family of origin, the church becomes our ‘first family,’ bound together in the creative love of the one from whom every family takes its name (Ephesians 3 v 15). And the church is especially for those who, in the twists and turns of a broken world, have lost their human family—widows, orphans, refugees, strangers. They above all are our brothers and sisters, our companions in discovering our new identity in Christ. Our image-restoring calling cannot happen without the church—without each other.” [17]”
― Daniel Darling, The Dignity Revolution: Reclaiming God's Rich Vision for Humanity

“To be fully human is to enjoy bearing God’s image, in the joy of relationship with him.”
― Daniel Darling, The Dignity Revolution: Reclaiming God's Rich Vision for Humanity

“If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity.” Francis Schaeffer”
― Daniel Darling, The Dignity Revolution: Reclaiming God's Rich Vision for Humanity

“You and I are made in the image of God. Jesus Christ, fully God and fully man, is the image of God.”
― Daniel Darling, The Dignity Revolution: Reclaiming God's Rich Vision for Humanity

“Our humility grows in the soil of the truth that we are not God. You are not the center of your own universe, the master of your own fate. You are not the arbiter of right and wrong. You cannot find sufficient reason for your existence or fulfillment in your existence from within.”
― Daniel Darling, The Dignity Revolution: Reclaiming God's Rich Vision for Humanity

“In other words, there is no basis for human dignity without a connection to God. Without taking account of the divine, we are left with a view of a human’s dignity based on that individual’s merit or excellence, based on some societally-agreed or government-imposed yardstick; and if the last century teaches us anything, it is that this shifting metric is dangerous.”
― Daniel Darling, The Dignity Revolution: Reclaiming God's Rich Vision for Humanity

“A gospel-saturated human dignity movement unites two seemingly disparate strands of the Christian life. It reminds us that personal salvation without neighbor love is an incomplete gospel, and it reminds us that social justice without individual transformation is powerless.”
― Daniel Darling, The Dignity Revolution: Reclaiming God's Rich Vision for Humanity

“Imagine, for a moment, if God’s people began to lead a new, quiet revolution whose foundation was a simple premise: every human being—no matter who they are, no matter where they are, no matter what they have done or have had done to them—possesses dignity, because every human being is created in the image of God. By God’s grace, our churches would change, and our communities would change.”
― Daniel Darling, The Dignity Revolution: Reclaiming God's Rich Vision for Humanity