Quotes About Creation

No hay en todo el Universo chapuza más grande ni trasto peor hecho que el cuerpo humano. Sólo las orejas, pegadas al cráneo de cualquier modo, ya bastarían para descalificarlo. Los pies son ridículos; las tripas, asquerosas. Todas las calaveras tienen una cara de risa que no viene a cuento. De todo ello los seres humanos sólo son culpables hasta cierto punto. La verdad es que tuvieron mala suerte con la evolución.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

If God meant this here bulldozer to live He wouldn't of filled its tank with diesel fuel.

The miracle of eggs. In the beginning was the egg. The chicken was an afterthought, a mere transmission mechanism for the production of further eggs. The world itself is egglike. Those astrophotos of galaxies, spiral nebulae—do they not resemble fresh eggs broken in the pan? The universe itself may be no more than one gigantic cosmic egg. And the function of mind? To fertilize that egg. Creating—who knows what grotesque and Godlike monster. Best not think about it.

Or Bakunin: "There are times when creation can be achieved only through destruction. The urge to destroy is then a creative urge.")

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.' I know that's not the answer they're after -- what they really want is some sense of the time between the first glimmer of the play in my mind, and the writing down, and perhaps the duration of the writing down -- but "all my life" is the truest answer.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso

If a god had made the world, might world always be right, that would be so wise, we'd be spared so much suffering. But we made the world - out of our smallness and weakness. Our lives are awkward and fragile...

no organised being could ever have been called into existence by other agency than by the direct intervention of a reflective mind.

Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.

You Mean It You cook because you decide to cook. You decide to take it on and everything that comes with it. You cook because you mean it. Your heart and hands work more and more in alignment with your clear intention. You'll see it through because you decided to see it through—and because the work itself is making your love manifest. Food appears!

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

We bring good things to life.

Honor a physician with the honor due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him.

Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?

God is innocent. Noah built in a flood plain.

We, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us, and to all men; We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?

The only thing We [God] say to a thing, when We desire it, is that We say to it, "Be," and it is.

Every April, God rewrites the Book of Genesis.

The Ancient of days.