Quotes About Creation

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.

Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

God created a path to his kingdom that is simple and straight. The obstacles that stand between you and God were created by man.

Man's glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in 'his goodness,' for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.

God has created the world to play hide-and-seek with man.

I think men are a beautiful creation.

Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.

Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.