Creation Quotes - Page 11

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

God is the Creator God, he doesn't want to say, "Okay, creation was very good, but I'm scrapping it." He wants to say, "Creation is so good that I'm going to rescue it."

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation.

Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.

We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.

. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.

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.

Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life, robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation. Creation is the logical result of the out-push of Life into self-expression.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

All creations demand greenery of spirt. 

Pure energy is the father of creation.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems.

Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation

For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.

The mystics are the only ones who have gained a glimpse into what is possible when this same capacity [for creation] is used primarily in the service of the individual himself instead of for the creation of art.

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

There is creation in the eye.

Time was God's first creation.