Quotes About Creation

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

Man makes god in his own image.

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

God creates the animals, man creates himself.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

God created man to share friendship with Him and share in His happiness.

I thank God for making me a man.

The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man.

How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?

The man has not the power to create life. Therefore, he has not either, the right to destroy it.

God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.

God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe.

Man alone is made in the image of God.

How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.

a man who builds a house never really dies.

I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.