Quotes about Creation
The Spirit of God createth a new nature in us, which is the principle and next cause of all acts of the life of God.
- John Owen
Whatever men make, she says, what they felt when they made it is there...Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
- John Updike
Do you think God wants a waterfall to be a tree?
- John Updike
Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.
- John Updike
Not until midlife did she truly believe that she had a right to exist, that the forces of nature had created her not as an afterthought and companion - a bent rib, as the infamous Malleus Maleficarum had it - but as the mainstay of the continuing Creation, as the daughter of a daughter and a woman whose daughters in turn would bear daughters.
- John Updike
Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.
- JRR Tolkien
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
- Anais Nin
For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him.
- Brigham Young
These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe life is worth living and your belief will help you create the fact.
- William James
Christianity is a world that is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there a rumor going around the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.
- CS Lewis
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James