When I went to camp in high school, one year we had a speaker who used a $5 bill as an example in one of his messages. He took out the $5 bill and said that no matter what you did to it, it would still be worth $5. He punched it, yelled at it, called it names, told it that it was worthless, screamed out it. He said you could abuse it. He even rip it in half, but it was still worth $5. It has value intrinsically in just being a $5. He said that our value is the same thing -- no matter what, the value God has placed in us as a creation in His image doesn't change.
I suppose the analogy could be taken a bit further if talking about a brick of gold. Even if it were to be thrown into a fire, it may melt, but liquid gold is as valuable as solid gold. In fact, it may even become more valuable, as every impurity can float to the top to be removed. But for some reason, all we ever seem to see is the dross and forget that the gold is still gold, and it's value and worth hasn't been diminished at all.
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