Quotes About Creation

Surprisingly, the Bible moves from cosmic majesty in Genesis 1 to a common everyday reality in Genesis 2: a young couple falling in love. So we might wonder if marriage is out of its depth here alongside the creation of the universe. Or could it be that the Bible sees in marriage more than we typically do? For now, we will put that question on hold, as we attend first to what Genesis 2:15–25 clearly teaches about marriage.

Adam's role was to assert and enjoy his sovereignty under God, cultivating the garden into an expanding paradise and protecting it from all harm.

The first claim of the Bible, then, setting the stage for marriage, is that manhood and womanhood are not our own cultural constructs. Human concepts are too small and artificial a context for the glory of our sexuality. Manhood and womanhood find their true meaning in the context of nothing less than the heavens and the earth, the cosmos, the universe, the entire creation. That is the first claim of the biblical love story.

Headship did not come down to us historically as an artifact of oppressive patriarchy; it began in heaven and came down into this world creationally as a pathway to human flourishing.

So Genesis 1 and 2 honor marriage as nothing less than the crowning glory of the creation of the universe. For us modern people who may see marriage as a product of human preference driving social evolution, that is a stunning claim. Moreover,

You're smiling. But you must know yourself, since you are a literary person, that the work of fiction is always a form of recovery of the past, even if that past has to be falsified to seem real. The act of recalling the past in what we write doesn't mean knowing the way it really was, but rather becoming the master of memories as they burn in the perilous instant of creation.

The only reason - the only need - to believe in God is to try and explain where this all came from....Where we came from. Where we're headed. But it doesn't work. If there was a creator, a designed who created all this, well then there had to be a creator to create that creator, right? And one to create him. And so on.

When I began making electronic music, the only thing I was thinking about was creating music that I really liked. I didn't think about what effect it would have; I was busy doing it.

Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their own and making a separate thing for it, that's beautiful. It just shows you how much you can affect other people... the butterfly effect of everything you put out into the world.

Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

You can say something, make something, and be rewarded for it by the people you're speaking to.

I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes out, it's been a year since you wrote it.

Cake is a very beautiful thing.

Making cake is one of the easiest things in the world.

I'm calculated in other things, but not in what I make.

I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.

In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

I'm an advocate of all mediums - it's a larger canvas for us as artists - but we have to keep in mind that celluloid film is what created this wonderful art form, and we have to keep it alive.

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made up in my head so other people could see them.

You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.