Quotes About Creation

Je montrerai comment ce peu de bruit inérieur qui n'est rien, contient tout, [...] comment un cerveau isolé du monde peut se créer un monde.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

Here is God's purpose — for God, to me it seems, is a verb — not a noun, proper or improper...

The priestly redactor who set down the Genesis tale, an initiate and a believer, attributed to the `fruit' the gift of self-consciousness, a remarkable observation because self-consciousness is one of the major traits that distinguish humankind from all other creatures. Is it not surprising that the composer of the story gave credit for this particular gift to our mushroom? It is unlikely that he was alone in doing so.

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. (Psalm 90:2)

How much greater and more lasting the work of man's hands and mind was than man himself. Looking up at the exquisite tracery of the vaulted roof, listening to the majestic music pealing up to join it, she felt dwarfed and humble, yet raised up in spirit beyond her own little ant hill of living.

When we can no longer divide, we are beyond Nature and approach the causal Cause, the abstract Cause. This is why the whole of metaphysics, all creation, is situated between the numbers One and Two.

because the world is God's creation and law order, it is the truth which in time shall prevail and triumph.

indolence, sloth rejects the burden of order, choosing instead the breezy lightness of freedom. Loving self more than relation, and autonomy more than the good, in sloth one rejects the weight and density of living in an ordered creation.

Glorious Holy Spirit, when I consider that You had a role in Creation, it means You also had a role in making me! And now You dwell in me! Thank You for this truth. Do make me ever-increasingly grateful to You for being my Creator. In Jesus's name, amen.

Life becomes a loving partnership when we realize that God provides the raw substance of life—willpower, thoughts, feelings, mobility, etc.—but we must choose their form. In every beat of our hearts we can hear God say, "I am with you. I love you. Be my partner in life.

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.

Beginnings are pregnant with possibilities.

You never believed in God, Doc, did you? You said if God created man in His image, why couldn't man invent a God that was more anthropomorphic, less gratuitously remote, who, like his enemy, Satan, resembled us?

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he perpetually struggled to outreach the wind, to outrun space itself. Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the Horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

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

Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.