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Quotes About Creation

This? It's a feather-coin. I made it.' 'What is it for?' 'It isn't for anything. It's a toy.' 'It's for annoying people,' said Mogget from Sam's pack. 'If you don't put it away, I shall eat it.
~ Garth Nix
Garth on naming characters I spend lots of time on all the names in the books... Sabriel herself, I tried many different combinations of different words, trying to create a new name. In fact, her name comes from trying to combine the heraldic term for black which is Sable, because I wanted something that felt dark and mysterious, with the iel ending that you find in angels' names.
~ Garth Nix
I've been thinking that it's as if my ancestors are saying it's all right to make things. That's what I'm meant to do. Make things, and help the Abhorsen and the King. So I'll do that, and I'll do my best, and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.
~ Garth Nix
You mortals arose from the possibility she made and, though she always liked to think so, are consequently not of her direct design.
~ Garth Nix
All things a wizard makes are flawed in some way. A Good Wizard, like myself, will do this intentionally. A Bad Wizard's works will have some accidental flaw, derived from their nature. All our work has some weakness. But why? To limit the object's power, said the Good Wizard softly. Power is always best limited.
~ Garth Nix
The best way to predict future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln
~ Gary Chapman
The social institution of marriage is first and foremost a covenant relationship in which a man and a woman pledge themselves to each other for a lifetime partnership. In the biblical account of creation, God's expressed
~ Gary Chapman
The earth is a loving God's gift to us, and we show our love for His work by practicing good stewardship. — Janet Graham
~ Gary Chapman
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. —Psalm 139:14
~ Gary Chapman
Whenever you enter a season of change, remember to look to the God of Creation who loves you in and out of season. — Alyssa Santos —
~ Gary Chapman
loves you has created it. — Peggy Frezon —
~ Gary Chapman
No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. —Romans 8:39
~ Gary Chapman
For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. —Romans 1:20
~ Gary Chapman
So the Lord was sorry he had ever made them. . . . It broke his heart. —Genesis 6:6
~ Gary Chapman
We need to love each person as someone God has created to be unique. — James Stuart Bell
~ Gary Chapman
Though some ways are more obvious than others, God is always expressing His love for us through His creation. — Karen Ellison
~ Gary Chapman
Whatever is good and perfect comes down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow. —James 1:17
~ Gary Chapman
God has made everything beautiful for its own time. —Ecclesiastes 3:11
~ Gary Chapman
What bothers me most about evolutionary evidence is that it hinges more on faith than faith does.
~ Gary Kurz
facilitating creation and engagement of an online kind of civil society quite literally at their fingertips.
~ Gary Marx
Art takes nothing from the world; it is a gift and an exchange. It leaves the world nourished.
~ Gary Snyder
Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?
~ Gaston Bachelard
We cover the Universe with the drawings we have lived.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Every object in the world, loved for its own sake, has a right to its own nothingness. Every being pours out being, a little of its being, the shadow of its being, into its own non-being.
~ Gaston Bachelard