Quotes About Creation

If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.

The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God in the context of giving Adam divine instruction.

We agree that man was not created to survive in space.

God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

Man is, above all, he who creates.