Quotes About Creation

The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.

To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

God wrote His loveliest poem on the day He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale-gold hill For all the new enchanted earth to see.

We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be.

A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

We are God's gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone, each playing a different part, and He makes it turn out so beautifully.

Nothing is happy until it fulfills the purpose for which it was created by God.

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

If we don't play God, who will?

God may have created the world in six days, but while he was resting on the seventh, Beelzebub popped up and did this place.

Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?

It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.