Quotes About Creation

Sometimes the world is too convincing, as if someone spent too much time on it.

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image....

T)he world is full of people busily making things into how they think the world ought to be, and burning huge parts of it to the ground, utterly and accidentally destroying things in the process without even knowing they are doing so. And that any of us might be doing that without knowing it, any of us, all the time.

The wild can be human work.

She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the shape of the sentence was destroyed.

Yet what is it except a game you play in which identity can be denied? You are as God created you. All else but this one thing is folly to believe. In this one thought is everything set free. In this one truth are all illusions gone.

You are the work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. 2This is how you must think of yourself in your heart,51 because this is what you are.52

19. [Miracles make Souls one in Christ.] They depend on cooperation because the Sonship is the sum of all the Souls God created.

reconocemos que la paz de Dios refulge todavía en nosotros, y que se extiende desde nosotros hasta todas las cosas vivientes que comparten nuestra vida. 2 Las perdonamos a todas, y absolvemos al mundo entero de lo que pensábamos que nos había hecho. 3 Pues somos nosotros quienes construimos el mundo como queremos que sea.

Let me this day arise in quietness With only thoughts of sinlessness, through which To look upon the world. Let me today Behold the world as You would have it be, Because I am as You created me.

Anybody in public life is well aware of how important the judgments of the press are. I'm firmly convinced that if the good Lord had made the world today, he would have spent six days creating the heavens and earth and all the living creatures upon it. But on the seventh day, he would not have rested. He would have had to justify it to Helen Thomas. (Gerald Ford as quoted by Helen Thomas.)

To create the new we must first de-create the old; and the reality of decreation (as Stevens called it, borrowing the word from Simone Weil) is as strong as the reality of creation.

Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators... she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

But God's Word, the Word that says he is our Father, the Word that has been calling out to us men from the first day of creation: "You are mine!" - this Word endures through all the eclipses of history, it sounds above the hoofbeats of the apocalyptic horsemen, and it will still be the saving Word on God's great last day of reckoning when the Judge will come to us and, suddenly, he will turn out to be our Father.

We are co-composers of the universe. We are on-creators of the God that is creating us.

If all of the presently observable universe pooled its matter to create one giant black hole, its radius measured in light-years would amount to the same number as its age in actual years: approximately 10^10.

If the universe as we know it is nothing but a vacuum fluctuation with a purloined total energy that is not much different from zero, it may exist for quite a while before the vacuum decides to call in the loan.

It is impossible to bring a substance down to a temperature of absolute zero; there cannot be a blackbody without radiation because absolute zero cannot be reached. And that means that empty space in its true sense cannot be created.

At the end of inflation, just as after the hot Big Bang, the universe is hot. It is, we might say, self-created by dint of its explosive growth: The inflationary process generates space, and the energy that space contains, from essentially nothing. To repeat Alan Guth's dictum, "The universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

I went to sleep in Chaos, and then I awoke like the first man.

There is no paradise except that which we create in the great tomb of the churches. There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.

The universe is a machine for making gods.

For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

… the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.