Quotes About Creation

I was about to say that you were not created for this lovelessness.

In all your years of living," said Elijah, "has no one told you that it is possible to be restored to what one was created to be?

Individual destiny is not produced machine-like from the "mills of the gods". Nor are we characters in a morality play. We are works of art, each work distinct, each a phenomenon, the art laboring hand in hand with the Artist to create the story. We are inside a poem. No, we are the poem.

What was the world's first computer? An Apple. Eve gave one to Adam.

The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.

Thus, the Entrepreneurial Model does not start with a picture of the business to be created but of the customer for whom the business is to be created.

The system isn't something you bring to the business. It's something you derive from the process of building the business.

At the most basic level, competition in health care must take place where value is actually created.

We learn what it means to be human from Scripture's opening act of creation and what it means to be Christian from its closing act of redemption. If redemption restores creation, then the point of being a Christian is to restore our humanity.

If redemption restores creation, then creation counts for more than I had ever suspected.

Redemption restores rather than obliterates creation.

Our Christian and human lives are united because redemption restores creation.

We must see God's gifts of creation as windows into his glory and opportunities to praise him. But we must also find pleasure in them. We should thank God for our day on the lake, but we don't need to say, "Praise you, Jesus!" with each cast. We must thank God for our daily bread, but it's okay to focus on the flavors of our sandwich while we're eating it.

God does not create the universe. Precisely the reverse is true. The universe creates God.

It has been said that man was made in the image of God. We want "God" to be made in the image of man: fully actualised man. It's time for HyperHumanity.

Bad luck was a fact of life and one dealt with it or not. Good luck, on the other hand, was something one created.

I can't help feeling sceptical about the Bible's claim that God made man in his own image...He could have achieved that by creating a couple of mirrors; or a closed-circuit television.

If you spend long enough realizing a character in your book, congratulations, you've made a friend for life.

In sum, the Trinity is manifest in a creation constituted as an icon of the God who is love, and thus a creation whose very form is Church, whose highest expression is the crucified, resurrected, and glorified Christ

The doctrine of creation ex nihilo, in other words, is not a freestanding cosmology. Rather, it is a function of the doctrine of God and the modifications forced upon that doctrine by the Incarnation, which inaugurated a metaphysical revolution that would take up the Greek inheritance and fulfill it from beyond its own resources.

But despite their poverty and their lack of material resources, food, housing, and so forth, the poor do have an enormous wealth in their knowledges and powers of creation.

Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nature leaves us wanting,and when we want there is never enough. Our insatiable wanting is called greed. It is a major source of our destructive dependencies and violence.

Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.

This is all birthed and nurtured in worship.