Quotes About Creation

God made them, they must have a purpose, but then, God made lions, wolves, and head lice, too.

Al sexto día, Dios vio que no podía hacer todo, entonces creó a los ingenieros

Table 2. The Four Tarot Suits Ultimately Represent the Divine Name, Yod Hé Vau Hé, and Its Fourfold Division of Creation SPIRIT Figure 14.

The part of the soul that corresponds to Yetzirah, the Formative World, is called the Ruach—the intellect

in the beginning God created light . . . to read by.

I watched my friend Eleanor give birth, she said. Once you've seen a child born, you realize a baby's not much more than a reconstituted ham and cheese sandwich. Just a little anagram of you and what you've been eating for nine months.

In view of the semen religionis implanted in every man by his creation in the image of God, it is safe to assume that no one is born an atheist. In the last analysis atheism results from the perverted moral state of man and from his desire to escape from God. It is deliberately blind to and suppresses the most fundamental instinct of man, the deepest needs of the soul, the highest aspirations of the human spirit, and the longings of a heart that gropes after some higher Being.

And the priest will say, 'This is a matter of the Devil and not of God,' and I will reply, 'Did God not make the Devil? Is He not omniscient? How can I be blamed for what He knew would occur from the very commencement of time?

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination

It is this by which we measure a man, by what he does with his life, by what he creates to leave behind. —Louis L'Amour

for what man does not love that which he himself has built?

History is best made by men with hands. Brains are well enough, but count for nothing without the hands to build, to bring to fulfilment.

An idea doesn't die, said Trapp. It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

I don't see why God made any night; day is so much pleasanter…

For when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole.

When we begin a new project, as embryonic or unsatisfactory as our early work may seem, we're readying ourselves for the deeper work that comes later. We learn about ourselves as writers. We establish our work's foundation. We permit ourselves to play and explore. We commit—or recommit—to working steadily and purposefully.

The trick is to keep at it steadily.We'll see progress in time.""Didion believes the notebook's value lies in its record of "How it felt to be me"at a particular time.""Henry Miller believed reading was 'an act of creation' By reading slowly,carefully,and with complete attention,he believed,we respect the writer's work and enrich our lives.

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.

which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as h umbel as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.

It was from ignorance on how the great business was founded.

For all these years no one has known and no one seems to have cared how it came into existence.

he assured me that God didn't make cancer because cancer is not good, and he cautioned me not to blame God for something He didn't make.