Quotes About Genesis

Chaos is Peace… Blackness, blackness intolerable, before the beginning of the light. This is the first verse of Genesis. Holy art thou, Chaos, Chaos, Eternity, all contradictions in terms!

Fact, I specks his mammy hatched him!

Creation is the miniature of creation

That's why the first real

What we call results are beginnings.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

Life begins when you do.

IN 1493, WHEN COLUMBUS returned from his unimaginable voyage, a Spanish-born pope granted all of the lands on the other side of the ocean, everything west of a line of longitude some three hundred miles west of Cape Verde, to Spain, and granted what lay east of that line, western Africa, to Portugal, the pope claiming the authority to divvy up lands inhabited by tens of millions of people as if he were the god of Genesis.

God created man in His own image," declares Genesis 1:27; "in the image of God He created him." What is the heart of man but a mirror image of the One who breathed it into existence? The mirror may be cracked and marred, but it has not lost its capacity to reflect its Maker. The soul possesses no absolute life of its own. In spite of itself, it bears witness to its dependency upon Another.

This is the start, this is not the end. To that end, where do we start

If you can believe it, I wrote all of 'Awakened' around one chapter. That was the idea for the whole thing, so I figured out what happened that led to this and then where it went from there.

From the Old Testament, containing the Atlantean Mystery teaching, we learn that mankind was created male-female, bi-sexual, and that each one was capable of propagating his species without the co-operation of another, as is the case with some plants today.

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

Beginning is half done.

At the dawn of organic sentience

It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1 and study together. Liberals can be just as intolerant as fundamentalists, and we have arrived at a moment in human history when intolerance and hope are mutually exclusive. (p. 6)

It was from ignorance on how the great business was founded.

For all these years no one has known and no one seems to have cared how it came into existence.

Porque las novelas nacen así, a partir de algo ínfimo. Surgen de un pequeño grumo imaginario que yo denomino el huevecillo. Este corpúsculo primero puede ser una emoción, o un rostro entrevisto en una calle.

A book must start somewhere. One brave letter must volunteer to go first, laying itself on the line in an act of faith, from which a word takes heart and follows, drawing a sentence into its wake. From there, a paragraph amasses, and soon a page, and the book is on its way, finding a voice, calling itself into being. A book must start somewhere, and this one starts here.

Start again. Tell the readers how they met. Start at the beginning.

A book must start somewhere. Listen…

Is birth always a fall?

But it was Genesis that got him, the Vulgate that was his namesake Saint Jerome's work. Genesis, especially chapter one, verse three. Dixitque Deus: fiat lux. Et facta est lux. Translated by himself into his personal Bombay "Wulgate": And God said, Cheap Italian motor car, beauty soap of the film star. And there was Lux. Please, Daddy, why did God want a small Fiat and a bar of soap, and also please, why did he get the soap only? Why couldn't he make the car?