Quotes About Creation

primitive man has never existed; he is nothing but a poetical creation of monistic imagination

The essence of the Christian religion consists in the reality that the creation of the Father, ruined by sin, is restored in the death of the Son of God, and re-created by the grace of the Holy Spirit into a kingdom of God.

We do not see God as he is in himself. We behold him in his works. We name him according to the manner in which he has revealed himself in his works. To see God face to face is for us impossible, at least here on earth. If, nevertheless, God wills that we should know him, he must needs descend to the level of the creature. He must needs accommodate himself to our limited, finite, human consciousness.

Such a scientific defense of the dogma, i.e., of the entire content of revelation and of Christianity as a whole, is possible for the reason that nature and grace, creation and redemption, coming as they do from one and the same God, are not and cannot be in conflict.

In the same way that man is created for God's sake, the rest of the world is created for the sake of man.[20] Therefore Calvin can define the end of creation in relation to man: God has created men and put them in this world in order to be a Father for them.[21] All the riches with which the world abounds proclaim aloud what a beneficent Father God is to mankind.

For whether the sun will rise again tomorrow, that I cannot know with certainty. But that God the Father, the almighty Creator of heaven and earth, is still there—that I surely know. That Jesus Christ is Lord, to whom all power has been given in heaven and on earth, that the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, moves over the chaos of this time as He did in the beginning over the dark depths—that I know.

But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are from the center of his existence. Thus we are cleverest where knowledge matters least....

Humanity looked in awe upon the beauty and the everlasting duration of creation. The exquisite sky flooded with sunlight. The majesty of the dark night lit by celestial torches as the holy planetary powers trace their paths in the heavens in fixed and steady metre - ordering the growth of things with their secret infusions.

Entre las cosas admirables, sobrepasa a todas las demás el que el hombre haya llegado a conocer y a crear la naturaleza divina.

Whatever the past may have handed on to us, it is up to each one of us to chisel our present out of the shapeless block of the future.

Every shift is a work of art.

Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire. He creates life by diminishing the Darkness.

That's why you must go. Why you must study many things. So you can tell them, tell the people who have forgotten everything, that for better or worse, humankind has created all of these things.

It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world.

I begin to understand you." She nods. "The blacksmith makes his own tools.

He does not even hate Francis Weston, any more than you hate a biting midge; you just wonder why it was created.

The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.

There is the music of Heaven in all things.

Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of the Earth's greenings. Now, think.

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal who produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

Life is brief, art is long.

No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.

Before the World was created, the Word already existed. The Word was the source of life, and this life brought light to mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out.

Before the World was created, the Word already existed. The Word was the source of life, and this life brought light to mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put in out.