Quotes About Creation

She [Kali] does according to her wisdom in destroying what is useless or what has lived its destined time.

It Takes Awhile to Create Nothing

A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.

God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics.

The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell.

If you don't know what's meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout.

God invented space so that not everything had to happen in Princeton.

the more we realize we are one with God the more we become ourselves, just as we are, just as we were created to be.

Union with God respects all distinctions between creation and Creator and is characterized by awareness of the presence and the transparency of perceived boundaries.

This book, by contrast, proceeds from an ancient Christian view that the foundation of every land is silence (Ws 18:14), where God simply and perpetually gives Himself, This Self-gift is manifested in the creation, in the people of God and their inspired (if stumbling) pursuit of a just society, and most fully, in the Christian view of things, in Jesus Christ.

God is 'the Light', and this Name is partly equivalent to his Names 'the Truth' and 'the Knower'. Truth is the object of Knowledge, and both are Light as opposed to the darkness of error and ignorance. The Light is One, but it is manifested with different degrees of intensity throughout creation, degrees of guidance which radiate from Truth, and degrees of faith which radiate from Knowledge.

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

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 out of clay.

God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Next to the word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. It controls our hearts, minds and spirits. A person who does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs!

The very simple meaning of what Moses says, therefore, is this: everything that is, was created by God.

Are we not to call Christ ours because we have not made him but only received him? Again, if we are the makers of things that are called ours, then we must have made our eyes, we must have made our hands, we must have made our feet, unless eyes, hands and feet are not to be called ours.

Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.

Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

God created us just in order to redeem us.. . .

God is the Poet, and we are the verses or songs He writes.

our Lord God is an artist like unto none…