Quotes About Creation

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Who was to say that God did not use the coyote's teeth to eat His gifts?

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

Architecture is an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this enviroment produces well being.

Without the desire for God, our planet would be a sorry wasteland of ugliness.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

In mythology and religion, no less than in other spheres of life there is much in the way of self-serving interests, deceitfulness, mindlessness, and vices. This has to be so because it is a human creation and everything human is tainted and corrupt.

Poeta é aquele cara que vem atrás pegando o que usamos todos os dias e jogamos fora, e quando você se vira vê uma catedral de tampinhas de garrafa.

O louva-a-deus é como Deus pretendia a espécie, uma haste de louvor à sua Glória. Uma planta com senso bastante para sentir dor e devoção e nada mais.

No existen confrontación ni creación sin riesgos, sin derecho a la divergencia, a la posibilidad de estar juntos y de pensar distinto, a la posibilidad del crecimiento personal a costa de nadie, su atipicidad, su independencia, sus juegos de imaginación para poder fundar una nueva visión en un nuevo orden que le posibilite ante él mismo y ante los demás testimonear su verdad.

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.

But we must come to realise that every word is perfect, including those we scratch out. As my pen moves across this page the whole world writes. All of human history combines at this mere moment now to produce in the flow of this hand a single dot: Who are you and I, dear friends, to contradict the whole past of the universe? Let us then in our wisdom say yes to the flow of the pen.

Brigid in the Kitchen Brigid, bless the things I create And the things I did not create: Honey from the hive, Milk from the cow, Salt from the sea.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.

God writes His Gospel not in the Bible alone, but in trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them of clay, in the way Adam was fashioned.

Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.

Even time breaks down within this calculus of interbeing. We stand in a spiral—rather than a strictly linear—continuity with our ancestors and the ancient cosmos. We still see the light of the stars that died long ago and that now form our living bodies; so, too, do our actions reach into the future of all life and death. It matters what we bring forth with the matter of our bodies. We create, as cosmos-formed creatures, within creation.

When we grumble about the weather, we are arguing against God's ordering of creation. When we complain about illness or job loss or whatever it may be, we are declaring, whether we realize it or not, that God isn't handling our affairs very well. Complaining is actually a form of pride, which makes sense when we recognize its rebellious undertones.

God created human beings with a capacity for loneliness so that we would yearn for and find our all in him.

Men and women have been hardwired with distinctive gender traits that, when working together, serve the human race and display the glory of God.

Dios hizo las nalgas para coger golpes.