Quotes About Creation

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

You can write a thousand lists and make a million vision boards, but if you don't clearly feel what you want to experience, it will never truly manifest into form.

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

Inevitably we make a small world in the midst of a big one. For a small world is all we know how to make.'p46

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

You are the product of your own brainstorm.

We loved—and were fated to sorrow. But from our striving and from our sorrow we fashioned The Oldest Story in the World.

As a man writes his fiction, his fiction is writing him. We can never change ourselves back into what we were, any more than I can change these printed words. So we have to be careful about what we write.

Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, "How do you know when you've finished making love?

Our Lord tells us that the Sabbath was made for man (Mark 2:27): it is a witness to our creatureliness, to the fact that we can rest because the government of all things is not on our shoulders, and our Lord is King over all creation.

To define man in Darwinian terms as a 'higher ape' is to strip man of his high seriousness. To declare man to be a creature made in God's image, but fallen, is both to stress his high potential as well as his present depravity outside of Christ. Even as Adam defines the old humanity of fallen man, so Jesus Christ, in His perfect and sinless humanity, defines the goal for redeemed man.

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

The Creator is that which activates a potentially unlimited set of modes in which finite agency is exercised, but is also simply what eternally is.

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.

Just think, your not here by chance, but by God's choosing you. His hand formed you, He made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else -- your on of a kind. You lack nothing His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here at this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

The State is born of the conquest of other people. The self-governing community is a creation of the people themselves in the process of overthrowing the State.

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El verbo puede crearse su propia carne, como el caracol su concha: pero la carne sola jamás creará al verbo, y como la estatua existirá sin alma.

No sabemos explicarnos por qué el halcón devora a la paloma, y nuestra ignorancia se retuerce contra el Creador del Cielo y de la tierra, origen de la justicia y fuente de todo bien.

You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs.

Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?