Quotes About Creation

Illnesses represent human judgments of conditions that exist in the natural world. They are essentially social constructions - products of our own creation.

And then he raised the welder to his face and flicked the switch.

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two—and only these two—basic functions: marketing and innovation.

Its five business principles are "respect for humans," "customer satisfaction," "social responsibility," "value creation," and "innovation orientation.

If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.

It is why God created matter, most of all the human body, which has the greatest power to make spirit visible. (Thus the philosopher Wittgenstein, asked what a human soul could possibly look like, answered, "Like a human body.")

not human nature with perfect preternatural gifts such as it was in unfallen Adam.

The quantity comes from the efficient cause but the quality comes from the formal cause.

sex for reproduction

One of Beethoven's biographers listed the three greatest and hardest human tasks as heroism, childbirth, and creative work. For

The "good news" part of this point is that we can cooperate in salvation, as we cannot cooperate in creation.

All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a painting or a person. Motherhood is the primary art, the art of creating (procreating) people.

we are participating in His actual work.

The cross is the crux, the crossroads, the twisted knot at the center of reality, to which all previous history leads and from which all subsequent history flows. By it we know all reality is cruciform—the love of God, the shape of creation, the labyrinth of human history.

Nothing exists but atoms and the void"—so wrote Democritus. And it is "void" that underlies the Eastern teachings—not emptiness or absence, but the Uncreated that preceded all creation, the beginningless potential of all things.

Our thoughts create our reality -- where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

To ensure that we don't merely exist in the dead present? ... That the oblivion of the now as opposed to the ecstasy of looking back--but wait, wait, if the present is the past, you fool, dissolving this very moment--then it is incumbent upon us now, now, to create the past--so obvious! so rudimentary!--it's the uncreated past that is dead [Walt Kaplan/August, Bedroom]

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

La creencia de que existen los animales porque Dios los creó - y que los creó para que podamos responder mejor a nuestras necesidades - es contraria a nuestra comprensión científica de la evolución y, por supuesto, a los registros fósiles, que demuestran la existencia de primates no-humanos y otros animales millones de años antes de que hubiera seres humanos en absoluto».

Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.

Why did God make lonely people? Answer: He was lonely, too.

A story or novel is a kind of map because, like a map, it is not a world, but it evokes one (or at least one, for each reader.

The purpose of a story or poem, unlike that of a diary, is not to record our experience but to create a context for, and to lead the reader on, a journey.