Quotes About Creation

I am the creator of my own prism of infinite realities. Every one I peel back will lead to another. And I will never really be sure if any of them are real.

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

if things which are good in themselves as being the handiwork of a good Creator are called vanity, it is because they are compared with things which are better still. For example, compared with a lamp, a lantern is good for nothing; compared with a star, a lamp does not shine at all; the brightest star pales before the moon; put the moon beside the sun, and it no longer looks bright; compare the sun with Christ, and it is darkness. " I am that I am, " God says; [ Exodus 3: 14 ]

an author should never conceive of himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom that did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.

I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)

God did not simply create and then walk away. He constantly sustains that which He created.

God's providence is His constant care for and His absolute rule over all His creation for His own glory and the good of His people. Note the absolute terms: constant care, absolute rule, all creation.

Seventeenth-century deism constructed a God who created a universe and then walked away to leave it running according to its natural laws and man's devices. Many people today are practical deists.

But God has not walked away from the day-to-day control of His creation. Certainly He has established physical laws by which He governs the forces of nature, but those laws continuously operate according to His sovereign will.

George MacDonald: "I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of. For to have been thought about—born in God's thoughts—and then made by God is the dearest, grandest, most precious thing in all thinking.

God's providence is His constant care for and His absolute rule over all His creation for His own glory and the good of His people.

God not only created the universe but that He upholds and sustains it day by day, hour by hour.

That is, all that God does or allows in all of His creation will ultimately serve His glory. As John Piper says in his book Desiring God, "The chief end of God is to glorify God and enjoy himself forever."[ 3]

Did He create you with an incurable speech impediment?

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

The Bible is a love story. Time and time again it illustrates how much God loves the world in spite of its sinful disobedience...The last book of the Bible, the Revelation of St John the Divine, creates a beautiful and yet terrifying picture of those last days when God will reveal Himself in judgment and in grace to all creation.

Every creative act is open war against The Way It Is. What you are saying when you make something is that the universe is not sufficient, and what it really needs is more you. And it does, actually; it does. Go look outside. You can't tell me that we are done making the world.

If the Lord made anything better than a woman he kept it for himself.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

Every work of art is a culturescape of you, your memories, the moments you spent working, your hopes, energies, and neuroses, the times you live in, and your ambitions. Of the things that are engaging, mysterious, meaningful, resistant over time.

Art is two parts agency and one part inner heat. The artist loves going down rabbit holes, working toward and against something at the same time, translating sensory and extrasensory impressions that all have their own sovereignty or joy, each of them on a journey to bring something back from a personal underworld, to build a new body out of disparate parts and materials. In this way, art is something like an undoing of death.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

Es mi deseo aprovechar este maravilloso espacio en blanco de la hoja de papel

The human body is the best work of art.