Quotes About Genesis

Defended over the ages as necessary to human survival, now all of a sudden hunting is necessary to the animals' survival, at least those favored species deigned fit to exist. But think about what he is saying. What a jaded, selfish view of the world and our place within it - a kind of reverse Genesis in which every species shall now be summoned before almighty man to justify their existence or be banished from creation, man the Unmaker of all things.

First, I got myself born.

A thing that has not been begun cannot be finished.

There is the first creation to every part of our lives

We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not to begin a sentence with And. I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And, but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James. In that case, I argued, why make us read the Bible? But it was in vain. Robert Graves was very keen on the symbolism and mysticism in the Bible at that time.

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

And this is an amazing thing: the answer is already implicit in Genesis 1: to embody the Image of God—to speak out of chaos the Being that is Good—but to do so consciously, of our own free choice.

The moral of Genesis I is that Being brought into existence through true speech is Good.

And this is an amazing thing: the answer is already implicit in Genesis 1: to embody the Image of God—to speak out of chaos the Being that is Good—but to do so consciously, of our own free choice. Back is the way forward—as T. S. Eliot so rightly insisted—but back as awake beings, exercising the proper choice of awake beings, instead of back to sleep:

la mayor consciencia de uno mismo y el consiguiente descubrimiento de nuestro carácter mortal, así como el conocimiento del bien y del mal, se presentan en los primeros capítulos del Génesis, junto a la amplia tradición que los rodea, como un cataclismo de magnitud cósmica.

Chaos is also the formless potential from which the God of Genesis 1 called forth order using language at the beginning of time. It's the same potential from which we, made in that Image, call forth the novel and ever-changing moments of our lives.

el talento es únicamente un buen punto de partida.

No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

El verdadero problema está en el arranque, en el punto de partida... tengo que encontrar esa primera frase. Tengo que encontrarla.

So where did they come from?

The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot

The Latin words humus , soil/earth, and homo , human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.

Ideas are the root of creation.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

it is natural to equate the light of Genesis with the electromagnetic radiation accompanying the primordial fireball of the Big Bang

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.

No better story of renaming can be found in the Bible than the story of Jacob (Gen. 32:22-32)

Hope deferred makes the heart sick." It's not a promise but a warning. Desire realized is a tree of life, and the tree of life is only found in Genesis, Proverbs and Revelation. Genesis is what was, Proverbs is what is, and Revelation is what will be.