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Quotes About Creation

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.
~ Rajneesh
If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.
~ Xenophanes
Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
~ Walter Lang
The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man
~ Khalil Gibran
On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.
~ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
If God had meant men to have children, he would have given them a PVC apron.
~ Victoria Wood
You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was made from his funny bone.
~ James M. Barrie
Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within
~ Jorge Luís Borges
God made only water, but man made wine.
~ Victor Hugo
The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
~ Walt Whitman
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
~ Abraham Lincoln
"Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God, angelic beings, man, animals, and vegetables.
~ Stuart Briscoe
God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.
~ Honore de Balzac
Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be today unrecognizable.
~ Loren Eiseley
Each man creates god in his own image.
~ Mordecai Richler
Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him.
~ Patti Smith
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.
~ Mary Quant
First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.
~ Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.
~ Pitirim Sorokin
Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'
~ Clement of Alexandria