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Quotes About Creation

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
~ Pierre Schaeffer
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
?statymai, - kart? pasak? jis Džonui, - n?ra Dievo duoti, bet žmogaus sugalvoti. Pasiži?r?k gerai ? žmones, kurie juos kuria, ir pagalvok, kokiems tikslams jie tarnauja - juk dažniausiai apginti nuosavyb? t?, kurie j? turi, nuo t?, kurie jos neturi.
~ Piers Paul Read
Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?
~ Pietro Aretino
God has in his power to make dazzling unmixed light spring from the somber depths of evening. He can also enclose the white explosion of day under the gloom of black clouds.
~ Pindar
Le mani, per Tina, sono l'origine del mondo, creano ogni cosa, trasmettono alla materia lo spirito che emana dal cuore.
~ Pino Cacucci
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them.
~ Plato
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
~ Plato
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
~ Plato
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
~ Plato
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
~ Plato, The Republic
It is not true that the world is too tired and exhausted to produce anything worth praising.
~ Pliny the Younger
The world is finite, harmonious, and good.
~ Plotinus
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
~ Plutarch
I read to him from his mother's Bible the first line of Genesis: 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.' It says nothing about hell, Tom. That came later with the membership drive.
~ Poe Ballantine
To be mortal means to die, and both Eve and Pandora bring death into the world. This is a curious rerversal of the fact that women bring life into the world, but it says something about the meaning of 'woman' within a religion dominated by male gods.
~ Polly Young-Eisendrath
Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.
~ Polykarp Kusch
...Men and women were created to be jointly the guarantee of the future of the humanity not only a physical guarantee, but also a moral one.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
The culture of life means respect for nature and protection of God's work of creation. In a special way it means respect for human life from the first moment of conception until its natural end.
~ Pope John Paul (II)
Your existence cannot be a mere stochastic accident.
~ Poul Anderson
My God—very literally, my God—we can't go on … having regular bowel movements … while creation happens!
~ Poul Anderson
we can't go on ... having regular bowel movements ... while creation happens!
~ Poul Anderson