Quotes About Creation

The Self must create           Its own reasons for being.           To shape God,           Shape Self.

Why is the universe?           To shape God.           Why is God?           To shape the universe.

Why is the universe? To shape God. Why is God? To shape the universe.

Yet God has been here all along, shaping us and being shaped by us in no particular way or in too many ways at once like an amoeba—or like a cancer. Chaos.

There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.

My love of writing is an outgrowth of my love of reading. Both helped me to escape boredom, to perform thought experiments, and to deal with the daily news. I can create a world that makes more sense than this one.

The self must create Its own reasons for being. To shape God Shape self.

But we can rig the game in our own favor if we understand that God exists to be shaped, and will be shaped, with or without our forethought, with or without our intent.

God has been here all along, shaping us and being shaped by us in no particular way or in too many ways at once like an amoeba—or like a cancer. Chaos.

We will shape God And God will shape us

I constructed you to look very male—so male that the females would be attracted to you and help convince you that you were male.

Forever uniting, growing, dissolving-- forever Changing. The universe is God's self-portrait.

God isn't good or evil, doesn't favor you or hate you, and yet God is better partnered than fought." "Your God doesn't care about you at all," Travis said. "All the more reason to care about myself and others. All the more reason to create Earthseed communities and shape God together. 'God is Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay.' We decide which aspect we embrace—and how to deal with the others.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.

Create no images of God. Accept the images that God has provided. They are everywhere, in everything. God is Change— Seed to tree, tree to forest; Rain to river, river to sea; Grubs to bees, bees to swarm. From one, many; from many, one; Forever uniting, growing, dissolving— forever Changing. The universe is God's self-portrait.

God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

Oh, Star Maker, even if you destroy me, I must praise you. Even if you torture my dearest. Even if you torment and waste all your lovely worlds, the little figments of your imagination, yet I must praise you. For if you do so, it must be right. In me it would be wrong, but in you it must be right.

For suddenly it was clear to me that virtue in the creator is not the same as virtue in the creature. For the creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself. I saw that the virtue of the creature was to love and to worship, but the virtue of the creator was to create, and to be the infinite, the unrealizable and incomprehensible goal of worshipping creatures.

Nie ma tu nikogo, Bóg stworzy? ?wiat i umar? z wysi?ku.

?wiat móg? powsta? tylko dlatego, ?e Bóg go opu?ci?. Najpierw by?o co?, a potem tego zabrak?o. To jest ?wiat. ?wiat ca?y jest brakiem.

After all, the Jewish historian Josephus maintains the world was created in the autumn, at the autumn equinox. A reasonable notion, since of course there were fruits in paradise; given the apple hanging from the tree, it must indeed have been autumn…

the world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully. But also that by telling the story of the world, we are changing the world. That is why God created the letters of the alphabet, that we might have the opportunity to narrate to him what he created. Reb Mordke always chuckled at this. "God is blind. Did you not know that?" he would say. "He created us that we would be his guides, his five senses.

Dievas rašo kaire ranka veidrodiniu b?du.