Quotes About Creation

Las obras nunca se terminan. El truco está en saber dónde hay que dejarlas inacabadas.

a story is a letter the author writes to himself

Por ese motivo deseaba que Edmond proyectase el mayor laberinto jamás creado, una biblioteca secreta, una ciudad de libros que habría de existir oculta bajo las catacumbas de la catedral de Hagia

We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.…

I always had plenty of ideas. I didn't exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.

When skies above were not yet named Nor earth below pronounced by name There was water...

the human and the divine are balanced across a dazzling equation: man's creation of God being exactly equal to God's creation of man, one unified mind bending like a snake around the curve of earth and heaven.

The unconscious life is just that—unconscious. You aren't even aware that you aren't aware of anything. You just think about the basics of life—food, clothing, money. It never occurs to you to wonder about for what purpose were you created. And then, once you ask that question, you can't stop asking it again and again. It always leads to another truth.

Grandpa, why am I like this?" he had asked. "If God made everyone just alike, the world would be a boring place, now wouldn't it?" Grandpa had answered.

But the screws had been there since the sixth day of creation and wouldn't budge. I leaned into

God never retires his image bearers.

The whole human race, beginning with Eve, comes from Adam's wounded side. A second race--a new redeemed humanity--comes from Jesus' wounded side. Jesus is the second Adam. Even before there is despair, God foreshadows hope. The creation of the woman is a sacred, holy moment.

God created our emotions to work in harmony with our other two most fundamental faculties: our mind and our will.

Our hope is in Christ, who started this good work in the first place. He is at work, right now, creating godly emotions in our hearts, and he won't stop until our lives are bursting with beautiful, passionate, true feelings.

we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.

We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it, and we ship it out in cans.

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

It was one way she had found to fill her solitary childhood, but it was more than that; the act of creation gave substance and shape to her life. It made order out of the chaos.

Sami gradimo svoje sutra

The machine has helped the creator of the machine to survive. No, it hasn't helped him. It has kept him alive. Gave him reason. A thing he felt his life was deeply lacking in.

There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself.

It's only a book. But what it means to write a book.

There is never an end to our work. It is not given to us to complete it. Who completes his work? That is the way of the world, Asher. Only the Master of the Universe completed His work. And it is said that even the Master of the Universe needs humankind in order truly to complete the Creation. Without man, what is God? And without God, what is man? Everyone needs the help of someone to complete the work of Creation that is never truly completed. Everyone. An artist, a Rebbe, everyone.

An artist is a person first.