Quotes About Creation

Experience shows that Being is the essential, basic nature of the mind; but, since It commonly remains in tune with the senses projecting outwards toward the manifested realms of creation, the mind misses or fails to appreciate its own essential nature, just as the eyes are unable to see themselves.

Expansion of happiness is the purpose of creation.

Behold how this drop of seawater has taken so many forms and names; it has existed as mist, cloud, rain, dew, and mud, then plant, animal, and Perfect man; and yet it was a drop of water from which these things appeared. Even so this universe of reason, soul, heavens, and bodies, was but a drop of water in its beginning and ending. ...When a wave strikes it, the world vanishes; and when the appointed time comes to heaven and stars, their being is lost in not being.

The foundation of our faith is the belief that God created the Universe from nothing; that time did not exist previously, but was created.

The basic principle is that there is a First Being who brought every existing thing into being, for if it be supposed that he did not exist, then nothing else could possibly exist.

The passage, "And He rested on the seventh day" (Exod. xx. 11) is interpreted as follows: On the seventh Day the forces and laws were complete, which during the previous six days were in the state of being established for the preservation of the Universe. They were not to be increased or modified.

here departs from his master, and holds that the spheres and the intellects had a beginning, and were brought into existence by the will of the Creator. He does not attempt to give a positive proof of his doctrine; all he contends is that the theory of the creatio ex nihilo is, from a philosophical point of view, not inferior to the doctrine which asserts the eternity of the universe, and that he can refute all objections advanced against his theory (ch. xiii.-xxviii.).

I was a simple little girl who sometimes played philosopher. I was no enigma. The mystery is your creation.

Omul nu este niciodat? mul?umit cu tot ceea ce a primit în dar. El însu?i este un creator, misiunea lui fiind aceea de a-?i transforma necazul în fericire.

As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So from The Eternal arises everything here.

This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.

sabía que el camino masónico tenía más sentido. Era la confianza clara, racional y sosegada en la creación humana de una sociedad pacífica, justa y fraternal, lo que dotaba a la masonería de su belleza y encanto humanista.

Cada ave com as asas estendidas é um livro de duas folhas aberto no céu. Feio crime é roubar ou destruir essa miúda biblioteca de Deus. - o homem que calculava

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

That's the trouble with people like you, Knight, you only know how to mock. How to break things. You don't know how to create anything. You never did.

Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is nothing.

Anyone who worships his own creation, something of his own making, is someone in a state of confusion. Power

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Wo Gott als Gott erkannt wird, dort will er als erstes den Dank seiner Geschöpfe.

Gott will nicht, daß ich den Andern nach dem Bilde forme, das mir gut erscheint, also nach meinem eigenen Bilde, sondern in seiner Freiheit von mir hat Gott den Andern zu seinem Ebenbild gemacht.

Thus, instead of gaining only an internal silence, in the common sense of the word, he gains also that strange dynamic silence which preceded creation, and from which all things come—the silence of the heart of God. This silence is the root of sound, and from it pours forth the fiat that fashioned the world. This is the dynamic silence of creation, the tremendous dramatic silence of new birth forever taking place- new worlds forever fashioning.

In Freemasonry is concealed a mystery of creation, the answer to the problem of existence, and the path the student must tread in order to join those who are really the living powers behind the thrones of modern national and international affairs. p. 18