Quotes About Creation

If you were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

Through the wise ordering of Creation man has been given the power to shape conditions for himself with the Power of the Creator. Happy is he who uses it only for good! But woe unto him who succumbs to the temptation to use it for evil!

See to it that you stand truly alive in the wonderful Creation of your God!

Life is a do-it-yourself project

I never view the ocean without being filled with ideas of the sublime, and am ready to break forth with the Psalmist, "Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; in wisdom hast thou made them all."

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral." —Frank Lloyd Wright

Nothing is wasted when you are a writer. The stuff that doesn't work has to be written to make way for the stuff that might;

God the first garden made, and the first city.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.

Sun, moon, and stars beckon people to worship the Creator—until people lose sight of the living God and begin to worship the sun, moon, and stars themselves.

God creates history, while people create an epic or a drama, drawn either from God's history or from unreality and pure fiction.

Kuyper notes that the scholar is distinct in setting the scope of his stewardship on the mind itself. "Not merely to live," he writes, "but to know that you live and how you live, and how things around you live, and how all that hangs together and lives out of the one efficient cause that proceeds from God's power and wisdom.

This picture of a God who continues to love the creation and who expedites the means to restrain and preserve in the midst of human fallenness—this is the picture that Abraham Kuyper fleshes out in this wonderful treatise.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. —Rabindranath Tagore

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

It is what we do in order to care for things, make them ourselves, our elders, our beloveds, our unborn. But perhaps that is a lazy kind of love. Why can't I just love the flowers for being a flower? How many flowers have I yanked to puppet as if it was easy for the world to make flowers?

I like sunrises, Mondays, and new seasons. God seems to be saying,"with me you can always start afresh.

Don't the overwhelming majority believe that mankind is the crowning achievement of Creation, that man is better than everything, even things we haven't yet investigated? And don't those people who aren't able to escape the bonds of their own ego think that the entire Universe, even the countless worlds of outer space, is just a backdrop for this ego? And yet it might be quite different.

What matters is the value people create, not the space they inhabit.

Don't criticize yourself while you're creating.