Quotes about Creation
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
- Martin Luther
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
- Martin Luther
God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
- Martin Luther
Next to the word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. It controls our hearts, minds and spirits. A person who does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs!
- Martin Luther
The very simple meaning of what Moses says, therefore, is this: everything that is, was created by God.
- Martin Luther
Are we not to call Christ ours because we have not made him but only received him? Again, if we are the makers of things that are called ours, then we must have made our eyes, we must have made our hands, we must have made our feet, unless eyes, hands and feet are not to be called ours.
- Martin Luther
Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.
- Martin Luther
Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either
- Martin Luther
God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
- Martin Luther
God created us just in order to redeem us.. . .
- Martin Luther
God is the Poet, and we are the verses or songs He writes.
- Martin Luther