Quotes About Creation

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

For so I created them free and free they must remain.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best He ever planted.

Like most other things not apparently useful to man, it has few friends, and the blind question "Why was it made?' goes on and on, with never a guess that first of all it might have been made for itself.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.

When this happens, it demonstrates a divine power equal to the same divine power seen in the creation of a world. It is without question the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous to all those who are not blinded by prejudice and unbelief.

An artist is his own fault.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.

Your thoughts have little legs that go out & create what you think about.

Revelation births creativity.

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.

The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature

God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he comes to us in this world there would be these powerful words and images to describe the promises and the pleasures of our covenant relationship with him through Christ.

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

Therefore, at the heart of the meaning of work is creativity. If you are God, your work is to create out of nothing. If you are not God, but like God—that is, if you are human—your work is to take what God has made and shape it and use it to make him look great.

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.

conversion is the creation of new desires, not just new duties; new delights, not just new deeds; new treasures, not just new tasks.

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.9 God did not create you for this.

The world and even thousands of Christians give no praise and thanks to God for millions of daily, life-sustaining providences because they do not see the world as the theater of God's wonders. They see it as a vast machine running on mindless natural laws