Quotes About Creation

Rather than just reacting to events, as transportation planners tend to do with traffic congestion, makers of, say, a patent system can construct one to reward creators or distribute intellectual property in ways that are not simply reacting to market pressures. We don't only have to enlarge what is there. We can light out for new territory, and make new places, and markets.

Pablito, the Bible was meant to be a bridge, not a wedge. It's the greatest love story ever told, about God's enduring and unconditional love for his creation--love beyond all reason. To understand it, you have to read it with love as the standard. Love God. Love your neighbor. Love yourself. Always remember that.

Mankind will not be perfect until it can create and destroy like God. It can already destroy: that's half the battle.

Music and art and philosophy are ultimately based on the premise that this man on his tractor, and these pigs, and the swarms of bees that fertilise the crops, will all continue to do what they do.

But that was what the world was like; we battered and bashed and poured out clouds of smoke and chemicals and particles of every description to bring forth our little objects of desire, our baubles.

In alien lands I keep the body Of ancient native rites and things: I gladly free a little birdie At celebration of the spring. I'm now free for consolation, And thankful to almighty Lord: At least, to one of his creations I've given freedom in this world!

He knew this place, where once in sport/The flood had played and waves had bubbled,/Defiant in their fierce despair;/He knew these lions, and this square,/And him whose bronze head dominated/The darkness from its lofty height –/Whose fateful head will had on this site/Decreed a city be created.

Art creates the Eden where Adam and Eve eat the serpent.

Stand unshod upon it for the ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator," Alan Paton wrote. "Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed."4

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

I maintain my pride in the face of men, but I abandon it before God, who drew me out of nothingness to make me what I am.

To despise flowers is to offend God.

Mankind will not be perfect until it can create and destroy like God. It can already destroy: that's half the battle.

God grew this. Life grew this. Love grew this. God, Life, Love – Interchangeable terms.

No church or synagogue pew can produce a higher awareness of God than sitting at the base of a tree and observing His creation.

God moves by His Word. He does things by speaking His Word.

Creation's the soul of haphazard.

Creation is the miniature of creation

Just as an indescribable sunset or a breathtaking mountaintop vista evokes a spontaneous response, so we cannot encounter the worthiness of God without the response of worship.

He has revealed Himself generally to us through creation, but more specifically through the Word.

The best thing I've ever done? Well, I've created four beautiful children. You mean, other than that?

The Earth was formed whole and continuous in the Universe, without lines.

All you need is stones... If you have enough stones and the water is shallow enough, you can build a city up through the waves.

Death is the mother of beauty," said Henry. "And what is beauty?" "Terror.