Creation Quotations | Page 10

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

The revilement of the infinite in the finite, which is the motive of all creation, is not seen in its perfection in the starry heavens, in the beauty of the flowers. It is in the soul of man.

In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice

Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

Criticism is the essence of creation.

All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

Geometry existed before creation.

There's a point for things we create where they don't belong to us anymore; when others love them, they belong to the world.

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.

Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me.

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe, without the agency of a Supreme Being. It is impossible to govern the universe without the aid of a Supreme Being. It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.

Without freedom, there is no creation.

That is, when the mind ceases to create, then there is creation.

Worshiping someone means...placing that person outside of our world. We are not worshiping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with Creation.

We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.

A person whodoes not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and 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.

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

If God is to create or to preserve a creature, God must be present and must make and preserve God's creation both in its innermost and outermost aspects.

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

Today, decide not to speak negatively about yourself. When you criticize yourself, you are criticizing God’s very own creation.

God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.

Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.

Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.

Our creation is the modification of relationship.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

Each of us is a masterpiece of God's creation

Take care of God’s creation. But above all, take care of people in need.

Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image, destined to live for ever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect.

Let us protect Christ in our lives, so that we can protect others, so that we can protect creation!

Because if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us! Never forget this!

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

Interdependence must be transformed into solidarity based upon the principle that the goods of creation are meant for all. That which human industry produces through the processing of raw materials with the contribution of work must serve equally for the good of all.

Since everything emanates from God, he is the embodied principle in every being. Each one of us is made from God. Tat twam asi - "You are That One" who is eternally blissful, that one principle manifesting itself as this variety of Creation.

There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.

Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.

What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.

Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.

Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

Creation is great, and cannot be understood.

In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only these universes that are compatible without existence. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense, the lords of creation.

What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions?

The question is: is the way the universe began chosen by God for reasons we can't understand, or was it determined by a law of science? I believe the second. If you like, you can call the laws of science 'God', but it wouldn't be a personal God that you could meet, and ask questions.

Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute.

Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

The work of creation is never without travail.

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.

The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.

The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.

You are the Beloved, you are the Divine, you are a creation that is made into perfection.

Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in the act of creation.

only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.

There is creation in the eye.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of the Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews