Quotes About Creation

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent.

A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.

Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

The Bible says that the the Lord thy God is a jealous God. But if you are omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, and the creator of all that exists, of whom could you possibly be jealous?

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

There has been a concerted effort to frame caring about climate change and the environment as an alternate religion - one that worships the creation rather than the creator, so to speak.

The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God.

One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

All I ever have to be is what you made me.

If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.

Fear first created the gods.

Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

God has not only created each of us as distinct individuals, He also uses us in significant ways.