Quotes About Creation

In the beginning God created" (Genesis 1:1), and every atom came from His imagination. I believe He made the world in such a way that to tend it, to touch it, would be to know His heart. He told a story into the earth, the tale of His bounteous heart. We were given the uplifted arms of pines and the vibrancy of a summer garden, the laden arms of apple trees and the dark patience of mountains, to keep us alive every day to all that God is and will continue to be.

Imagination is the first step to creation, the instigating spark that drives the actions of a hero.

Maybe you've made something mediocre—there's plenty of that in any artist's cabinets—but something mediocre is better than nothing, and often the near-misses, as I call them, are the beckoning hands that bring you to perfection just around the blind corner.

There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

I still had to invent and write a great philosophic work, which I had begun a year before, and which was called, "The Tower of Babel." I had already written five hundred pages of it, and I was still only on the Prologue! At this period my sexual anxiety disappeared almost completely, and the philosophic theories of my book took up all the room in my psychic activity.

Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it, took off its studded collar, and slit its throat.

Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

We are grass of the field. We flourish for a season and then fade. Death wipes us out. Yet, we are part of a totality that death cannot eradicate. I was, am, and will forever be a particle within a resurrecting cosmos. My DNA was included in the Big Bang. The blossoming of time, space, and multiplicity intended me, and I will be a part of the unfolding, flowering, and closing of time. I exist within the alpha and the omega.

Apart from God we create our own gods, in our own image, to make us feel secure and worthwhile.

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny

So if Adam and Eve are the parents of the whole human race, where did Cain's wife come from? After

Having invented himself, the narcissist sees no problem in recasting that which he had designed in the first place. The narcissist is his own repeated Creator - hence his grandiosity.

The creative power of the Third Logos, that which gives life to the creatures in the womb, that which makes life to spring forth out of the chaos, is potent and intelligent enough to bring the woman her precise, exact complement.

Love destroys. Thought creates.

Millions of stars overhead make the violence of the Big Bang clear. So much force that matter is still sprinting away from the center. I

The deepest lake in the Adirondacks is made by men and full of enough mystery to betray all humankind.

Humans are so good at imagining things, they invent gods who feel so real, they then betray us by not existing.

Art isn't a hawk making lazy circles in the sky. Beauty doesn't equal art, and it can't just be the world in a package. It's got to take the world and mess it up some. Add the artifice as a lens, right?

things get made from belief and memory.

To contrive a little kingdom, in the midst of the universal muck, then shit on it, ah that was me all over.

Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas are just as mortal and just as immortal as organised beings are.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.