• "For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."- Ephesians 2:10

• "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." -Genesis 1:27

• "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God." -Romans 8:18-21

• "But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold." - Job 23:10