Quotes About Creation

And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty. Myths and legends walk unseen amongst them, ignored, unrecognized. It was not always so.

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

the artificial things are as natural as the natural things.

What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink? That is deep and sacred science.

Well, which is the most rational theory about these ten millions of species? Is it most likely that there have been ten millions of special creations? or is it most likely that, by continual modifications due to change of circumstances, ten millions of varieties have been produced, as varieties are being produced still?"4 It's a good question.

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature. (38)

If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.

Curiosity about the world and how people create, use, and access information should fuel our practice.

So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.

The mechanism thus created periodically acts out post-modern notions of cosmology and then deconstructs itself. It has met with great admiration and no little puzzlement.

So she asked, "If you're a machine, then what is your function? Why were you made?" "To know you. To love you. And to serve you.

It may be possible in the not-too-distant future to use CRISPR to create whole new species.

We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.

Few things that are made quickly endure.

This is the mission of God: to restore the creation and the life of humanity from the ravages of sin.[45] The church's function in this story is to participate in God's mission; we are to be caught up in God's own work of restoration and healing. This defines the identity and role of the church.

This farmer knows the creaturely nature of the seeds and the land that he deals with, and knows also the best methods of sowing those seeds, of harvesting, and of threshing. But the farmer knows all this by virtue of his experience with God's orderly creation. God instructs the farmer, says Isaiah, but he does not use Scripture to do so directly; instead, wisdom—God's instruction—comes as the farmer discerns and conforms

The biblical story is not to be understood simply as a local tale about a certain ethnic group or religion. It begins with the creation of all things and ends with the renewal of all things.

I baked a cake.

Toute expérience poétique engage au moins trois termes : un sujet, un monde, un langage».

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.