Quotes About Creation

Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.

Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.

To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.

Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.

The seed must move to the soil; the tree must turn to the sun. The river must leave its source to reach the sea. And man must forget man, the maker, in order to make the world.

No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.

Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!

The apple was the first fruit of the world according to Genesis, but it was no Cox's Orange Pippin. God gave the crab apple and left the rest to man.