Quotes About Creation

A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.

For man was created of the dust of the earth, but woman was made of a part of man, after that he was a living soul: yet was she not produced from Adam's foot, to be his too low inferior; nor from his head to be his superior, but from his side, near his heart, to be his equal; that where he is Lord, she may be Lady.

When they see beyond the sky, When they know beyond the mind, When they hear the song of the Burning Light; Take these Gifts of My Outstretched Hand, Weave them together. I shall come.

Love is the sweetest monotony that was ever conceived of by the Creator.

La imperfección busca la perfección. En cambio, la perfección en si misma es estéril.

Re: Central Park But the height proved the awesome truth that the park was made by man: nature re-created where it had been killed.

A book is almost always a collective effort, even if it has only a single author.

God went forth to create the world, and he took his dog with him. - Kato Indian creation story

Human beings were not made for time, time was made for human beings.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

You are the writer of your own life.

God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man, but in every particle. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome,And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,Wrought in a sad sincerity;Himself from God he could not free;He builded better than he knew—The conscious stone to beauty grew.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.