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Quotes About Creation

That from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
~ James Morrow
The time of an infinite game is not world time, but time created within the play itself. Since each play of an infinite game eliminates boundaries, it opens to players a new horizon of time.
~ James P Carse
Certain machines of extraordinary complexity have been built: spacecraft, for example, that sustain themselves for months in the void while performing complicated functions with great accuracy. But no machine has been made, nor can one be made, that has the source of its spontaneity within itself. A machine must be designed, constructed, and fueled.
~ James P. Carse
While finite games are externally defined, infinite games are internally defined. The time of an infinite game is not world time, but time created within the play itself.
~ James P. Carse
The infinite player in us does not consume time but generates it. Because infinite play is dramatic and has no scripted conclusion, its time is time lived and not time viewed.
~ James P. Carse
No one conceives a child; a child is conceived in the conjunction of sperm and ovum. The mother does not give birth to a child; the mother is where the birth occurs.
~ James P. Carse
So the new creation will be a place of never-ending, ever-increasing joyful relationship with God and with one another, but what will we actually do there? The answer is that we will reign over creation!
~ James Paul
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
~ James Prescott Joule
Most books don't even come into the world with the noise of the still-born.
~ James Purdy
Michelangelo once said that David already exists in the unpolished block of marble; the artist's job is to set him free by carving away everything that isn't David.
~ James Rapson
The universe is energy, energy that responds to our expectations.
~ James Redfield
Evolution is a myth. God creates the future the way he wants it.
~ James Redfield
Ars longa, vita brevis," she whispered, a quote from Hippocrates. One of her favorites. Life is short, art eternal.
~ James Rollins
If God had wanted men to ride bikes, He wouldn't have put our balls where they are.
~ James Rollins
I am a collector of bread crumbs, all those bits of science and history that I mash and knead together to build my stories. And now that the bread is baked and served, my goal here is to try to separate those slices of the story that are based on substantial fact from those that are pure fabrication.
~ James Rollins
In creating, the only hard thing's to begin;A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
~ James Russell Lowell
I am creating him out of my own inadequacies, you must remember that
~ James Salter
God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn't stopped since.
~ James Scott Bell
be cool. God created you that way
~ James Swanson
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
~ James Thomson
Don't get it right, get it written.
~ James Thurber
According to our chronology, [the creation of the world] fell upon the entrance of the night preceding the twenty third day of October in the year of the Julian Calendar, 710 [4004 b.c.e.].
~ James Ussher
This means that the Genesis 2 account cannot be used to argue that heterosexual union in marriage reconstitutes the original, binary, or androgynous ʿadam. The creation of woman does not arise from the splitting of an original binary or sexually undifferentiated being. Sexual union is never portrayed in Scripture as the recovery of a primordial unity of the two genders.
~ James V. Brownson
V. We have art in order not to die from the truth. —NIETZSCHE
~ Donna Tartt