What God Has to Say about Our Bodies Quotes

“In 2014, 54 percent of women described themselves as “unhappy with their body,” and 80 percent said that looking in the mirror “made them feel bad.” These numbers are significantly higher than in previous years. I am sure there are many contributing factors, but one is surely that, more and more, we are being presented with unrealistic standards of beauty. Models and actors are subjected to training and dietary regimens that are often unsustainable, hugely expensive, and extreme. And even then, images are cropped, airbrushed, and recolored so that the final image we end up seeing on a giant poster may not actually be anyone’s actual body but a weird hybrid of one or more people and a whole lot of digital editing.”
― Sam Allberry, What God Has to Say about Our Bodies: How the Gospel Is Good News for Our Physical Selves

“There is now a human body sitting at the right hand of God the Father at the very center of heaven.”
― Sam Allberry, What God Has to Say about Our Bodies: How the Gospel Is Good News for Our Physical Selves

“We must treat each word we type as if it was being offered to someone sitting across the table from us. Presence matters. In its absence we need to be all the more careful not to dehumanize.”
― Sam Allberry, What God Has to Say about Our Bodies: How the Gospel Is Good News for Our Physical Selves

“different species. It is not the case (to use the language of a hugely popular book from several years ago) that men are from Mars and women from Venus. However much we may mystify, surprise, or delight one another, we are far, far more alike than we are different. In fact, the very first interaction”
― Sam Allberry, What God Has to Say about Our Bodies: How the Gospel Is Good News for Our Physical Selves