Quotes About Creation

However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:

ëHeaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or where will My place of repose be?

Has not My hand made all these things?í

It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.

I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.

“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.

Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

ëFor in Him we live and move and have our being.í As some of your own poets have said, ëWe are His offspring.í

Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by manís skill and imagination.

For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

For since the creation of the world Godís invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God.

For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope

that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.

neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

“Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”

For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.