Quotes About Creation

Limits not only reveal his wisdom; they also express his love. Limits are not a prison; they are a grace. You cannot allow your leadership community to assign more work to a leader than can be done in the time allotted to him or her. You cannot ask a person to pile work upon work, day after day, without periodic Sabbaths of rest. There are few more important things for a spiritually healthy leadership community to consider than the time limits that God designed for his creation from the get-go.

No awesome thing in creation was meant to give you what only the Creator is able to give. Every awesome thing in creation is designed to point you to the One who alone is worthy of capturing and controlling the awe of your searching and hungry heart.

Sinners tend to move away from defining themselves in relationship to their Creator and begin defining themselves in relationship to the creation.

Worshiping the creation is never a pathway to life; it leads you in the opposite direction.

Everything that was created was made by God and for God. All the glories of the created world were designed to point to his glory. The universe is his, designed to function according to his purpose and plan. That includes you and me. We were not made to live independent, self-directed lives. We were not meant to exist according to our own little self-oriented plans, living for our own moments of glory. No, we were created to live for him.

The question is not whether you will worship, but rather what you will worship—your glorious Creator or something he created.

Recent discoveries about the primeval cosmos oblige us to accept that the expanding universe has been set up in its motion with a cooperation of astonishing precision.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

Da ward sie zu einer Kuh; er aber ward zu einem Stier und begattete sich mit derselben. Daraus entstand das Rindvieh.

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

God is a mathematician of a very high order and He used advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.

In the beginning, all there was was the divine Mother. All things in the beginning are female.

say "From nothing comes nothing - Nihil ex nihilo!

Producing happiness involves deciding, designing, and doing, and

Ci sono momenti in cui penso che gli uomini nascano con il bisogno di combattere contro il male e che quando non riescono a trovare nulla di malavagio con cui lottare, se lo creino da soli. Istvan DiVega - Il ritorno del principe.

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: " How beautiful that is!

Don't paint from nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more of the creation that will result.

Allah is essentially all things. He permeates through all beings created and originated . . . He who knows himself understands that his existence is not his own existence, but his existence is the existence of Allah . . . For He will not have anything to be other than He. Indeed, the other is He, and there is no otherness.

God creates the world and chooses a special people.

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.

I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For my dwelling place is as much among the dead as the yet unborn. Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough.

A static and unyielding divinity is truly incommensurate with the very fabric of existence and is not in fact supported by many biblical stories that indicate a relational God who weeps over a beloved people, a beloved earth, who anguishes and builds, who argues and responds, who watches over creation (like a mother eagle), and who is as steadfast as a rock.