Quotes About Creation

The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.

Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.

I build only living stones--men.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

God created men to test the souls of women.

There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.