Quotes About Creation

The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

God, to be God, must transcend what is. He must be the maker of what ought to be.

Fhe Creator and Lord of all so loved the world, that He sent His Son for its salvation, the Prince and Savior of the faithful, who washed and dried our wounds, and from Him also came that most sweet medicine, from which all the good things of salvation flow.

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen as a director, in the sense that you are the master of all the moving parts. You create the world in every detail.

There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

When you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create, your brain is like a computer, and you need to refresh.

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

Life is a miracle, and we need to not fear trying to achieve our potential and reveal the remarkable creation we and all living things are and that our Creator has built into us the ability to induce self-healing.