Quotes About Creation

The new birth is the creation of spiritual life, not the imitation of life.

God created the world to exhibit the fullness of His glory in the God-centered joy of His people.

When God is so often spoken of as the last as well as the first, the end as well as the beginning, it is implied that as he is the first, efficient58 cause and fountain from whence all things originate; so, he is the last, final cause for which they are made; the final term to which they all tend in their ultimate issue. This

God designed human fatherhood to be a portrait of himself.

Emotions are like a river flowing out of one's heart. Form is like the riverbanks. Without them the river runs shallow and dissipates on the plain. But banks make the river run deep. Why else have humans for centuries reached for poetry when we have deep affections to express? The creation of a form happens because someone feels a passion. How ironic, then, that we often fault form when the real evil is a dry spring.

The End for Which God Created the World

The aim of the gospel is the creation of people who are passionate for doing good rather than settling for the passionless avoidance of evil.

divinely given framework based upon natural order of creation and appropriateness of function within a master plan. One cannot accept the Bible as authoritative while rejecting its authority concerning home and church order. One cannot

God did not create the world to keep his glory invisible, and he did not re-create Christians to keep our passion for his glory invisible

From the purest principles of reason, as well as from the fountain of revealed truth, he demonstrates that the chief and ultimate end of the Supreme Being, in the works of creation and providence, was the manifestation of his own glory in the highest happiness of his creatures.

The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?"32 "The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted."33

The further up you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory, and that this aim is no other than the endless, ever-increasing joy of his people in that glory.

Nadie comprenderá la necesidad de la conversión si ni siquiera sabe por qué nos creo Dios. Nos creó a su imagen para que pudiéramos reflejar su gloria en el mundo. Fuimos creados para ser prismas que reflejen la luz de la gloria de Dios en todos los aspectos de la vida. Es un gran misterio por qué quiso Dios compartir con nosotros el resplandor de su gloria.

If the beams are beautiful, the sun is even more beautiful. God's aim is not that we merely admire His gifts, but even more, His glory.

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.

Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

The Economy: "Given the unbridled right to create money, government will do so and eventually cause the destruction of the entire system.

Remember that in six days Christ made the heavens and earth and all that in them is. "Without him was not any thing made that was made" (John 1:3). If He made so many wonders in six days, then what beauties and marvels He has surely prepared during these 1900 years in which He has been preparing our mansions in the Father's House!

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.