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Quotes About Creation

The more I begin to love the commandments of God in creation and word, the more present they will be for me in every hour.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
But when we create our own God and our own world, what we are really doing is to deify our own lust. We are then bound to hate our fellow-men, as obstacles standing in the way of our wills.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Man at his origin knows only one thing: God. It is only in the unity of his knowledge of God that he knows of other men, of things, and of himself. He knows all things only in God, and God in all things. The knowledge of good and evil shows that he is no longer at one with this origin.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christliche Bruderschaft ist nicht ein Ideal, das wir zu verwirklichen hätten, sondern es ist eine von Gott in Christus geschaffene Wirklichkeit, an der wir teilhaben dürfen:
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God does not will that I should fashion the other person according to the image that seems good to me, that is, in my own image; rather in his very freedom from me God made this person in his image. I can never know beforehand how God's image should appear in others.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Did you ever stop to consider that God made us to remake us? He created us so we would seek Him and be transformed by Him.
~ Dillon Burroughs
Even in our own lives, we often struggle with a God who is real, who created us, who cares for us, and desires to know us. Yet from the start, God has made clear that you and I are made in his image, on purpose and for a purpose.
~ Dillon Burroughs
Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
~ Diogenes Laertius
They go far back in our lost distance where what we never had stands waiting; it was inevitable that we should come upon them, for our miscalculated longing has created them.
~ Djuna Barnes
You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.
~ Djuna Barnes
Art destroys silence.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
I do write quickly, that's true, but I think about my music for a comparatively long time, and until it's complete in my head I don't begin setting it down.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
Imam toliko iskustva da pouzdano znam: u stvaranju I ljubavi tu?a iskustva ne zna?e skoro ništa.
~ Dobrica ?osi?
I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.
~ Dodie Smith
Diseases are information. But if the body doesn't have the information from this disease, the body creates the demise. It is a very interesting format to think that actually a disease is an energy of importance, not an energy of negativity. D: I was also told that the body will become
~ Dolores Cannon
Yes. Now they've forgotten. They don't use them. Now we create lives based on limitations. We accept limitations. We accept so many limitations. Now that's not necessary to accept these limitations. D: We get caught up in the culture and what people condition us to believe. J: That's what needs to change.
~ Dolores Cannon
Can you create a vacuum out of a human life? A state where everything's possible but nothing very likely? Does something new emerge when there's no more empty space?
~ Dominic Smith
God likes to make people. Great people out of common people, strong people out of week people, famous people out of the unknown people, good people are bad people. God likes to make people. That's an obsession with God, one from which He will never change.
~ Don Baker
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
~ Don Marquis
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals.
~ Don Schrader
Most people create their first Selves to deal with a bad situation, the death of a parent, the loss of a home, or the loss of their first boyfriend or girlfriend. These Selves aren't usually very well made, but they are the forces that awaken us to the need to create ourselves out of the materials of our life.
~ Don Webb
original ideas are the easy part. Actually producing the idea as a successful product is what is hard.
~ Donald A. Norman
Like a lot of painters in this century, you seem to enjoy lifting things out of the world, in this case words or phrases, and then... And then, sung to and Simonized, theyre thrown into the mesh.
~ Donald Barthelme