“Man made God in his own image…”
Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“God did not, as the Bible says, make man in His image; on the contrary man, as I have shown in The Essence of Christianity, made God in his image.”
Lecture XX, see [Lectures on the Essence of Religion, Harper & Row, New York, 1967, 187, Transl. Ralph Manheim] German: [Vorlesungen über das Wesen der Religion, Wigand, Leipzig, 1851, 241] <br class="br"> Lectures on the Essence of Religion http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/lectures/index.htm (1851)
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Source: Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers
“God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image."”
Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857) English dramatist and writer
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 257.
