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

“To eat of this tree was to disobey God, to rebel against his au-
thority. To break any command was rebellious, but this tree was
especially significant. It represented knowing good and evil the way
God knows good and evil—not merely being aware of it, but being
the one who is uniquely able to determine it. To eat from this tree
was not only to break God’s law but to take upon oneself the right
to make God’s law, the right that properly belongs to God alone.
It was to assume man actually knows more than God does about
how we should live and what should be regarded as good and bad.
This was the sin God was warning against. The punishment of
that sin with death was not arbitrary. To sin by eating from that
tree was to push God out of his rightful place and substitute man
instead. It was to turn away from the God who is life. That can
only lead to death.”
― 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