Quotes About Genesis

I have always been born.

Light beams became alive, and became not only alive, but self-aware, and acquired the ability to wonder. The wonder is not whether this genesis took six days or fourteen billion years or even eternity.

According to our best understanding of the universe and equally according to the most ancient commentaries on the book of Genesis, there was only one physical creation. Science refers to it as the big bang. The Bible calls it the creation of the heavens and the earth. Every physical object in this vast universe, including our human bodies, is built of the light of creation.

The Age of Our Universe: Six Days and Fifteen Billion Years

Biblical commentators [say that] the first six days of Genesis were six 24-hour days. This means that whoever was in charge recorded the passage of 24 hours per day. But who was there to measure the passage of time? Until Adam appeared on day six, God was watching the clock. And that is the key.

He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation.

Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field.

It is easier to begin well than to finish well.

Every April, God rewrites the Book of Genesis.

Sometimes people need to go back to the beginning. To where everything started.

Oh what was the racket that backeted and smashed in raging might, to make this oil-puddle world?--

the cause of death is birth or procreation

Everything is not black-and-white. I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful.

'Paranormal Activity' was the first of our independently made/studio-released films. It was also the ultimate low-budget high-concept movie, which is what we are always looking for. 'Paranormal Activity' was the genesis of our model, of which I am so proud.

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction.

Home is where one starts from.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

When the first man created Himself, He was the light of the circle. Then He willed the sun into being It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man.

Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?

THE PREMISE OF THIS BOOK CAME TO ME CIRCA 2006

I've posed this question myself. If the myth of the creator refers to the first single-celled, asexual being, how do we get to SEX?

An idea springs out of his forehead fully formed, with no warning. This is how all the best ideas arrive.

In the beginning, there was physics.

God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27