Quotes About Creation

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A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman's crowning creative experience of a lifetime.

How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.

Whatever men make, she says, what they felt when they made it is there...Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy.

Do you think God wants a waterfall to be a tree?

The beast is dry and mottled, shedding skin as minutes drop from life, a wristy piece of dogged ugliness, its labors meant to carve from language beauty, that beauty which lifts free of flesh to find itself in print

Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.

My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy.

as if in the pre-dawn, before light begins to lift edges into being.

children are not our creations but our guests, people who enter the world by our invitation but with their smiles and dispositions already prepared in some mysterious other room.

Not until midlife did she truly believe that she had a right to exist, that the forces of nature had created her not as an afterthought and companion - a bent rib, as the infamous Malleus Maleficarum had it - but as the mainstay of the continuing Creation, as the daughter of a daughter and a woman whose daughters in turn would bear daughters.

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

Christians claim their faith gave rise to modern science even though the Bible literally contains talk of a six-day creation, a three-tired universe, a worldwide flood let loose from the firmament above, nine-hundred-year-old men, talking snakes and donkeys, a sun that stood still, and a hell in the deepest parts of the earth, and they still want to claim their faith gave rise to science?

The marvelous Maker!

Faith is the womb in which all worthwhile and spectacular things have ever been born.

God, unlike His creation, is always proactive and never reactive.

God makes the harvest to grow. But we choose the kind of seed we sow.

I couldn't imagine my life without getting to know God. He knows me, He created me. He should be known.

Ideas are God pulling up the frame of the curtain to show us what can be.

Allah created the bonds of family, so Who are you to cut bonds that Allah has created.

But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.