Quotes About Creation

His self and the sun were oneAnd his poems, although makings of his self,Were no less makings of the sun.

Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.

God and the imagination are one.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

A poem is a meteor.

Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

It was the way of Emma Lou always to create her worlds within her own mind without taking under consideration the fact that other people and other elements, not contained within herself, would also have to aid in their molding.

According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

God rested when he had left his creative power to itself in man.

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

I imagine Lent for you and for me as a great departure from the greedy, anxious antineighborliness of our economy, a great departure from our exclusionary politics that fears the other, a great departure from self-indulgent consumerism that devours creation. And then an arrival in a new neighborhood, because it is a gift to be simple, it is a gift to be free; it is a gift to come down where we ought to be.

That divine rest on the seventh day of creation has made clear (a) that YHWH is not a workaholic, (b) that YHWH is not anxious about the full functioning of creation, and (c) that the well-being of creation does not depend on endless work.

I have suggested creation is a work guaranteed by the king. The king is the one charged to order and preserve creation, and thus the return to chaos implicitly announces the failure of kingship and its end.

He who begets something which is alive must dive down into the primeval depths in which the forces of life dwell. And when he rises to the surface, there is a gleam of madness in his eyes because in those depths lives cheek by jowl with life. The primal mystery is itself mad - the matrix of the duality and the unity of disunity.

Steve Jobs: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Man was created to praise, revere, and serve God in this world and to be happy with him forever in the next.

El trabajo en sí mismo no es una maldición de Dios, sino una participación en su obra creadora, un acto redentor y positivo, noble en sí mismo y digno de lo mejor del hombre, igual que fue digno del mismo Dios. Darse cuenta de que, cuando Dios se hizo hombre, se convirtió en un trabajador contiene una espléndida verdad. No fue rey, ni jefe de una tribu, ni un guerrero, ni un estadista o un destacado líder de las naciones, como algunos esperaban del Mesías.

Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life.....The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worth while and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die.

Those who loved with all their heart and mind and might have always thought of death, and those who knew the endless nights of harrowing concern for others have longed for it. The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worthwhile and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die." (The Faith of a Heretic)

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.