Quotes About Creation

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We have made you [Priapus] of marble for the time being.

All aglow is the work.

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.

O ye Sun and Moon, oh ye beans and roses, oh ye jigs and juleps, Bless ye the Lord, Praise Him and Magnify Him Forever. Amen.

A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

Christ is everywhere, closer to everything created than these things are to themselves. God's embodiment through Christ encompasses the world.

If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients seem to have had reason to decide that bringing their creations to full completion likewise required a correspondence bewteen the measure of individual elements and the appearance of the work as a whole.

Before every one of them was made, they all existed potentially in the clay, and, of course, they are identical substantially; but when formed, and so long as the form remains, they are separate and different; the clay-mouse can never become a clay-elephant, because, as manifestations, form alone makes them what they are, though as unformed clay they are all one.

My beloved boy, alone, in the beginning there existed the One without a second. That saw and felt, "I will give birth to the many." That projected heat.

on account of their possessing their own minds, it is possible that their wills may differ, and that, whilst one desires creation, another may desire destruction. The only way of avoiding this conflict is to make all wills subordinate to some one will.

Between what we know and what we cannot hope to know about how we come to be as we are lies an emotional dumping ground into which exceptional writers pour all the art they are capable of making.

The person is the highest creation of God only because God gives it the possibility of love, therefore of refusal.

The world itself is but a series of footnotes to a vast unfinished masterpiece.

No smiths forge myths.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

It's a shame that Nature made you only one man; there was material enough for a worthy man and a rogue.

It is a terrible and awesome thing when a man sets out to create all other men in his own image. Such became the goal and all-consuming ambition of Karl Marx.