5 Quotes by Edward Sri

Being created in the image and likeness of this Trinidadian God suggests that we’re made to live like him — to live in relationship and to live a life of self-giving love. Written in the fabric of our being is this law of self-giving. This is what we’re made for. Only when we give ourselves in love to God and others will we find our happiness.

For Genesis 1, therefore, to proclaim that Israel's God is the one true God who created the sun, moon, stars, sea creatures, and all the animals would have been a countercultural and subversive message. Genesis would be highlighting how the very gods that the pagans worship are actually not deities at all, but merely creatures of Israel's God, the one and only true God!

In the Bible, being made in tbe image of someone else implies a father-and-son relationship. In fact, the next time this word is used in Genesis, it describes tbe relationship between Adam and his own son, Seth: Adam "became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth" (Gn 5:3).

Only when we are convinced, like Mary was, of how little we can really do on our own and how utterly dependent we are on God can the Lord begin to act in magnificent ways in us and through us.

It is only by learning to give up our freedom to do whatever we, in our fallen human nature, want, and by entrusting our lives entirely to a God who knows what is truly best for us and desires our happiness that we discover the deeper freedom to live life to the fullest – a freedom that is possessed only when we live totally in the Lord’s plan.