Quotes About Creation

I write because I love how I feel to have written.

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Every salad you serve is a picture you have painted, a sculpture you have modeled, a drama you have created.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations." —Paul Valery

In the peculiar alchemy of literature, the daughter was adept at creating in fiction what she had not known in her own childhood.

She praised his 'agricultural theology', having long ago taken such advice as gospel: don't go looking for a better place "but MAKE one.

From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the drinks they want.

the abuser's desire to abuse is not created by the child - it is there before the child appears

What you focus on is what you will create in your life. What you truly believe you are, you will become.

God has delegated to us--to all of us--a profound responsibility for what is happening all around us and for the care and wise stewardship of all creation.

The ezer is a warrior. Like the man, she is also God's creative masterpiece--a work of genius and a marvel to behold--for she is fearfully and wonderfully made. The ezer never sheds her image-bearer identity. Not here. Not ever. God defines who she is and how she is to live in his world. That never changes.

Eve was created to know and walk with God and to make him known to others by reflecting his character in her life. This is a woman's true path to fulfillment and meaning — the only way we will ever discover who we are and find our purpose. And it is accessible to all of us.

When God created human beings in his 'image' and 'likeness,' he was designating us as his representatives on the earth. Instead of running things directly himself, he chose us as his intermediaries to run things here in this world. As his image bearers, we speak and act on his behalf.

By making us 'a little lower' than himself, God affixed the highest possible value on his daughters and his sons.

The God of justice, goodness, righteousness, and beauty created a world that is perfectly designed to reflect who he is.

Men and women working together actually predates men working with men and women working with women. It would be one thing if God confined this male/female team to home and family and then mapped out the remaining territory into separate spheres for men and for women. But he didn't do that. Their mission--together--is to rule and subdue the whole earth on his behalf. Men and women together.

In Genesis God is multiplying the mystery of the Trinity in his image bearers by creating another individual who stands on level ground with the man and is completely different from, yet one with him. The oxygen hasn't grown thin after all. God is still vision casting--this time for male/female relationships.

God created his daughters to be image bearers, and that necessarily entails a call to leadership. Failure to see this creates problems that are often overlooked--the predicament and even the peril this creates for so many women, not to mention how this hampers the mission of the church.

As we dreamers make our souls into evolved fields, our genius is nutured and our presence and everything we create becomes charged and capable of positively altering the fields of others. In this process, we become more essentially human-which is to say, paradoxically, more divine.

Draw, Antonio, draw, said Michelangelo to one of his apprentices. Draw and do not waste time.

Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling.

I love making up stories. I love getting lost in other worlds and being with other characters. I love the way I think I'm in control and then the characters and stories take on a life of their own. I love how I can incorporate my own faith into the stories I write. Writing is both discovery and creating and with each book I do that. Discover and create. It can be an adventure some days, a nightmare others. I also like that I can do this wearing ugly clothes.

Someone's summered in my stomach, Someone's fallen through my legs, To make an infant omelet, Simply scramble sperm and eggs.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.