Quotes About Creation

Our mind is but a lump of clay That Fate, grim potter, holds On sorrow's wheel that rolls away, And, as he pleases, moulds.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground--everything that has the breath of life in it--I give every green plant for food."

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

For nearly all that is good in our American civilization we are indebted to the Old World; the errors and mischiefs are of our own creation.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

Humankind is the only creation of God that was made in God's own image and likeness. Lucifer was not made in God's image and likeness. Lucifer was one of God's archangels and was originally His minister of music. Lucifer

When we dream with God, we become the masterpieces of His imagination.

Satan is limited in every way. God gave him his gifts and abilities at his own creation. There has never been a battle between God and satan. The entire realm of darkness could be forever wiped out with a word. But God chose to defeat him through those made in His own likeness—those who would worship God by choice.

One of the most priceless parts of our human life is the area called desire. It is a God-given gift that separates us from all the rest of creation.

After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.

You are uniquely you and only God knows you to the very heart of your being. God's will is tailor-made to fit you and fulfill God's plan for the universe. God's will for you is in fact your destiny and the reason why you were created.

the inexhaustible pages of nature Ã¢â'¬Â¦ written over and over uncountable times, written in characters of every size and color, sentences composed of sentences, every part of a character a sentence.

When, in Paradise Lost, Adam asks about the movements of the heavens, Raphael refuses to answer. "Let it speak," he says, "the Maker's high magnificence, who built / so spacious, and his line stretcht out so far; / That man may know he dwells not in his own; / An edifice too large for him to fill, / Lodg'd in a small partition, and the rest / Ordain'd for uses to his Lord best known.

Few people think about it or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.

When religions disagree about just creation, there is nothing to do but argue. When two scientists disagree about evolution, they confer with colleagues, develop theories, collect evidence, and arrive at a more complete understanding. Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself.

We are a result of evolution, and therefore so are our creations—both the not-so-good and very good. It's glorious.

Configuring necks this way is almost certainly not how a designer or engineer would build the world. But the details all make perfect sense once you embrace the idea that evolution does not work the way a human designer or engineer would.

What we need now are new stories to share with each other, new tales to live into the world, which is to say, stories to make real by living our own versions of them.

Joy is a well-made object, equalled only by the joy of making it.

Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.

SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn't anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there.

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?