Quotes About Creation

A creator who no longer remembered the creation: Wasn't that one definition of a god?

The real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we're alive.

A theory was forming in his head, like a musical composition he could hum from vague memories but not quite yet name or play.

the atmosphere of the town was an artificial creation whose existence relied on the subtle attentions of its inhabitants.

Live with your age, but be not its creation; labour for your contemporaries, but do for them what they need, and not what they praise'. F. Schiller, Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays (Boston: Francis A. Niccolls, 1902), p. 33.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Somos arquitectos de nuestro propio destino.

Beauty brings copies of itself into being.

The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato's Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person.

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages, which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages are there. Only you don't see them.

God made man because He loves stories.

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain. There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages are there. Only you don't see them.

This lifetime is yours to make what you will of it

Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?

Whoever is ashamed of marriage is also ashamed of being thought a man, or else he thinks that he can make himself better than God made him.

What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the Serpents offer and had said to him instead, Let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be -- let me be a woman?

God might have given Adam another man to be his friend, to walk and talk and argue with if that was his pleasure. But Adam needed more than the companionship of the animals or the friendship of a man. He needed a helper, specially designed and prepared to fill that role. It was a woman God gave him, a woman, "meet," fit, suitable, entirely appropriate for him, made of his very bones and flesh.

A wedding is a celebration of marriage, of an institution ordained by God at the creation of man, to be entered into with solemnity as well as with joy.

Once one understands that the evolving community of life on Earth is God's beloved creation and its ruination an unspeakable sin, then deep affection shown in action on behalf of ecojustice becomes an indivisible part of one's life.

Human beings. They are the ones with the most important job. They are supposed to make what they want out of what they are given.

build-your-own-telescope

It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside--in the inner woman and her heart--and then works outward.

The old cobbler had believed in something he called the signature of all things-namely, that God had hidden clues for humanity's betterment inside the design of every flower, leaf, fruit, and tree on earth. All the natural world was a divine code, Boehme claimed, containing proof of our Creator's love.