Quotes About Creation

They're our own little storm in the making!

If it's possible to have a thought without a word or an image, without time and space—complete, created by me, a revelation of what remains hidden in me (and from me) but suddenly appears, if it could be born so clearly for all to see, without origin, without any effort of breath, of tone of voice, of rhythm or hesitation, without vision even, emerging like a normal thought, or more than a thought: a thing—if such a thing could exist, then I'd like to tell a story.

Art is the child of Nature yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

The puzzle of time, the mystery of creation, the problem of evil, the enigma of knowledge, the state of soul, the vexations of probability theory of the nature of God's grace, all reduced to a single question. What does it mean, in a world of God's creation, that man is free to choose between the paths of good and evil?

Life is a sculpture, chip, chip, chip. In good time, with good patience, even the most formidable rock can be shaped.

And Allah took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it, and created the horse.... Thou shall fly without wings, and conquer without any sword. Oh, horse.

Technology is not a form of robotics but something very human: the creation of tools and techniques that answer certain uses in our lives.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit--man.

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

Every thought and feeling is a painting stroke, in the darkness, of our likeness that is to be; and our whole life is but a chamber, which we are frescoing with colors that do not appear while being laid on wet, but which will shine forth afterwards, when finished and dry.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow.

Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.

A rule is like a mold; you pour in the wax, and when it is pressed, it comes out, and the mold is left behind.

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

It was only after her marriage that she had learned to create the illusion of beauty, which is, perhaps, more difficult to achieve than beauty itself.

I did feel a 'something', like a catch in the silence at the moment of creation.

John Radcliffe, Royal physician to William and Mary, was famous in his own time for reading very little and writing almost nothing. So it stands to reason that one of the most famous libraries in Oxford was his creation.

And where it all came from was a mystery, I thought. Like the changing of the seasons and the tides of the sea.

She was spontaneously created by the midichlorians,' I said. Both women gave me blank looks. 'Never mind.

feeling that now familiar change in the phase state of existence, like a catch in the silence at the moment of creation.

God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?

I accept that one day, my music will be gone forever. So will the Sistine Chapel, Bruce Lee movies, and all the silly arts and crafts my aunt ever bought. Gone with the wind. Making songs is something I do here and now. Because light captured is just a moment, a flicker.

For a good poet's made, as well as born.