Quotes About Genesis

Adam was a gardener.

William Wordsworth

The first two chapters appear to be a record of creation, but this is superficial. The underlying thought is focused on life. These two chapters are a record of life. They are too simple and too brief to be an adequate account of creation. Genesis 1 and 2 were not intended by God to be a record of creation, but a revelation of life.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

All things human begin with words.

It is a commonplace of Christian thought that joy is deep tranquility. Yet it seems to me that biblical joy is something more: it is "holy laughter"—the laughter of Sarah, for example: "God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me" (Genesis 21:6).

The great thinkers of the early church wrote numerous commentaries on the creation story in Genesis 1–3, more so than any other part of the Bible, because they understood that it contradicted the fundamental beliefs of their inherited pagan culture and challenged them to replace it with something that was true to reality.

In the end, we begin.

Ideas arise independently from the same mysterious source.

C'est le premier matin du monde.

The First Days The

elements or origins.

The beginning is always so hard. Any beginning is always so hard.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

Common sense says that if something possessed the ability to create itself from nothing, then that something wasn't nothing, it was something - a very intelligent creative power of some sort.

It all starts with post play.

You have to create something from nothing.

It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.

When I was really little, we used to play Sega Genesis, and my older brother would play 'Sonic The Hedgehog 2,' and he'd be playing as Sonic, but he'd leave an unplugged controller for me to play with, and the whole time I thought I was playing as Tails.

Ever since Genesis decreed 'thorns and thistles' as a long-term punishment for our misbehaviour in the Garden of Eden, weeds have seemed to transcend value judgements, to be ubiquitous and self-evident, as if, like bacteria, they were a biological, not a cultural, category.

This is the place, you say to yourself, where everything starts to begin

It isn't over yet, it's just begun.

In that ancient Genesis poem, this animating energy is called Spirit. And in that poem, Spirit enters and animates forms, which then create new forms.