Quotes About Genesis

They looked like people-shaped clay in the moments before God breathed out.

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.

the first six days of his life

I went to sleep in Chaos, and then I awoke like the first man.

How should the first two chapters of the book of Genesis be understood in their internal, that is, spiritual, sense? It must be done by applying what the Christian world has so utterly forgotten: that everything in the Word, to the smallest detail, envelops and signifies spiritual and celestial things.

The beginning, the laying down of the fundamentals, was always the worst part, which he supposed was why so few people did it.

figure of the First.

There's no story that's the start of itself.

The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

The work of creation is never without travail.

It's not a coincidence that the Bible starts with Genesis. Most people really want to know where we came from and where everything around us came from. I like to strongly push the scientific answer. We have evidence. We no longer have to rely on stories we were told when we were young.

I listened to all those blues records. They were great - Clapton, John Mayall. Then eventually I heard Genesis with Peter Gabriel, and I didn't really understand the difference then, but something struck me about the inversions and the diminished chords... they weren't as bluesy, and I loved it. I found out, that was very baroque-influenced.

The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.

Still, while the Old Testament God of Genesis might well have used the sixth day of the week to create all the creatures that lived on dry land, in the contemporary epoch Fridays, surely, are more readily associated with winding down than embarking on bold new exercises in urban development.

it was in a way the world at the very beginning – the elements alone, and starlight.

Everything starts from a dot.

All art is concerned with coming into being.

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, Thou art our great original!

if nothing endswhere do we begin?

The energy of God's intent flooded the new heaven and earth with light on the very first day of Genesis. Light's potent good thus pervaded the evenings and the mornings when the seas separated from the dry lands, and the earth brought forth grass and fruit trees - even before God set the sun, moon and stars in the firmament on the fourth day.

The beginning is half of every action. —Greek proverb

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what was the very first injunction laid by the Lord upon our first ancestor? . . . name all the beasts .