Quotes About Creation

Adam had unleashed a monster into the world.

They were to be priest-kings in God's creation as sons of God.

Words are not simply an expression of the self; they help to create the self. In struggling to say what we are, we become what we say.

Per ottenere un cambiamento radicale bisogna avere il coraggio d'inventare l'avvenire. Noi dobbiamo osare inventare l'avvenire.

Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.

For one of these responsibilities is to promote the welfare, including the spiritual welfare, of all created persons; God could no more choose to create persons without accepting that responsibility than human parents can choose to raise children without acquiring an obligation to promote their welfare.

No matter how many eons it takes, he will not rest until all of creation, including Satan, is reconciled to him, until there is no creature who cannot return his love with a joyful response of love." —Madeleine L'Engle

As the Augustinians see it, God opposes sin enough to punish it, but not enough to destroy it altogether; instead of destroying sin altogether, he merely confines it to a specially prepared region of his creation, a region known as hell, where he keeps it alive for an eternity. According to our alternative picture, however, God forgives sin for this very reason: in no other way could he oppose it with his entire being.

We have to imagine and create, we have to fantasize, or there's nothing. Passion, desire, romance-those things don't exist unless we make them happen

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

The world is indeed the beautiful frontispiece of eternity.

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

My mind s a center of divine operations

Spirit in the Infinite is the Creative Power of the universe,

Because I am what I am, I may be what I will to be. My individuality is one of the modes in which the Infinite expresses itself, and therefore I am myself that very power which I find to be the innermost within of all things.

Beauty represents the supremest living quality of Thought.

We cannot think into manifestation a different sort of life to that which we realise in ourselves.

The Bible says Eve was born of Adam's rib, but he was born of the earth, so there was woman before there ever was man. She is not merely a mate, a life's companion, a helpmeet; she is the moving force, the power.

Great was the work of creation, but greater was the work of redemption. Great wisdom was seen in making us—but more miraculous wisdom in saving us. Great power was seen in bringing us out of nothing—but greater power in helping us when we were worse than nothing. (...) In the creation, God gave us ourselves; in the redemption, He gave us Himself.

None can do as God; he brought the world out of nothing; 'And hangeth the earth upon nothing.' Job 26: 7.

What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second, and third days, in which the evening is named and the morning, were without sun, moon and stars? What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in Paradise like an husbandman?

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.

Christmas, 1905 This is a history. But there is only one history. It began with the creation of man and will come to an end when the last human consciousness is extinguished.