Quotes About Creation

July being God's month.

Conscious Evolution Conscious evolution inspires in us a mysterious and humble awareness that we have been created by this awesome process of evolution and are now being transformed by it. Barbara Marx Hubbard

once that each of us is the author of our own lives? That we are responsible for what we are? For the deeds, both good and bad, that we do?

the canvas the first time I saw

I remember sitting in this cabin in Alaska one evening reading over the notes of all these encounters, and recalling Joseph Campbell, who wrote in the conclusion to 'Primitive Mythology' that men do not discover their gods, they create them. So do they also, I thought, looking at the notes before me, create their animals.

It is our imagination that gives shape to the universe.

In Arius's view, everything except for God himself had a beginning. Only God is "without beginning.

The Father alone has existed forever. The Son was begotten by God before the world was created. But this means that he "is neither eternal nor coeternal . . . with the Father." God is above, beyond, and greater than all things, including Christ.

What about the world we live in? Was it the creation of the one true God? Or was it the inferior creation of the God of the Jews (who was not the God of the Christians)? Or was it a cosmic disaster and inherently evil?

Lord created me at the beginning of his work,                  The first of his acts of long ago.

For us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. (1 Cor.

the state of the world today. Why is it a place of such misery, pain, and suffering? Because it is not the good creation of the ultimate true God.

When a thing is put down in such permanent mediums as paint or stone it should be a thing well worthy of record. It must be the work of one who has looked at all things, has interested himself in all life.

The mason stirs. Words! Pens are too light. Take a chisel to write.

God the Creator had made man in His own image, and that meant that every man and woman who dwelt under God's light was a creator of some kind, a person with an urge to stretch out his hand and shape the world into some rational pattern. The black man wanted—was able—only to unshape.

you wondered why in the hell the world had been created in the first place. Good things were in short supply, and so much of the rest was downright rancid.

We had once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

while I love each and every item, I'm happy to sell them, because I made them especially for you. Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.

I am not the potter, nor the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay, does it depend on the value achieved intrinsic as much as the value of the clay as the wheel and master craftsmanship?

That's really all art is about, I think, and not just pictures—it's the same with books and stories and sculpture and even castles in the sand. Some things call to us, that's all. It's as if the people who made them were speaking inside our heads.

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

Their situation was becoming ever harder to deny: they were characters in someone's story. This whole world--

if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you.

God loved rocks, houseflies, weeds, and poor people above all the rest of His creations, and that's why He made so many of them.