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Quotes About Creation

Oppenheimer was right: 'I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
~ Nora Roberts
The creation of fire was, arguably, the first magickal act of man. Bloodstone—fire and blood.
~ Nora Roberts
Was there anything more powerful than the ability to create beauty?
~ Nora Roberts
profession." "Art
~ Nora Roberts
Art is long, and time is fleeting.
~ Nora Roberts
The peculiarity of innovative fantasies in the form of works of art is that they are fantasies kindled by material which is accessible to many people. In a word, they are de-privatised fantasies. That sounds simple, but the whole difficulty of artistic creation shows itself when someone tries to cross this bridge — the bridge of de-privatisation. It could also be called the bridge of sublimation.
~ Norbert Elias
The pinnacle of artistic creation is achieved when the spontaneity and inventiveness of fantasy-stream are so fused with knowledge of the regularities of the material and the judgement of the artist's conscience that the innovative fantasies emerge as if by themselves in a way that matches the demands of both material and conscience. This is one of the most socially fruitful types of sublimation process.
~ Norbert Elias
skeptics are caught in a dilemma. If they say history cannot be known, then they lose the ability to say evolution is true and Christianity is false. If they admit history can be known, then they must deal with the multiple lines of historical evidence for creation and Christianity.
~ Norman L. Geisler
there aren't missing links—there's a missing chain!
~ Norman L. Geisler
In fact, the ripples are so exact (down to one part in one hundred thousand) that Smoot called them the "machining marks from the creation of the universe" and the "fingerprints of the maker."15
~ Norman L. Geisler
The theory itself, which has been verified to five decimal places, demands an absolute beginning for time, space, and matter. It shows that time, space, and matter are co-relative. That is, they are interdependent—you can't have one without the others.
~ Norman L. Geisler
These two Bell Lab scientists had discovered the afterglow from the Big Bang fireball explosion!
~ Norman L. Geisler
G—Great Galaxy Seeds
~ Norman L. Geisler
In the same way, the universe would be out of energy by now if it had been running from all eternity.
~ Norman L. Geisler
For nothing comes from nothing; nothing ever could.
~ Norman L. Geisler
The Law of Causality does not say that everything needs a cause. It says that everything that comes to be needs a cause.
~ Norman L. Geisler
This expanding universe is the second line of scientific evidence that the universe had a beginning.
~ Norman L. Geisler
It's also important to understand that the universe did not emerge from existing material but from nothing—there was no matter before the Big Bang. In fact, chronologically, there was no "before" the Big Bang because there are no "befores" without time, and there was no time until the Big Bang.
~ Norman L. Geisler
Time, space, and matter came into existence at the Big Bang.
~ Norman L. Geisler
finite being needs a cause, the Cause of all finite beings (God) does not need a cause: He is the Uncaused Cause and Unlimited Limiter of all limited things.
~ Norman L. Geisler
the greatest miracle of all—the creation of the universe out of nothing—has already occurred, which means Genesis 1:1 and every other miracle in the Bible is believable.
~ Norman L. Geisler
God can intervene in the universe he created despite what David Hume says.
~ Norman L. Geisler
Einstein said that he wanted "to know how God created the world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thought, the rest are details."3
~ Norman L. Geisler
One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful, even if it is only a floating ash.
~ Norman Maclean