Your imagination is everything. It is a preview of life's coming attractions. ALBERT EINSTEIN

For nothing comes from nothing; nothing ever could.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?

How comes the world to be here at all instead of the nonentity which might be imagined in its place? ... from nothing to being there is no logical bridge.

The new is preceded by the destruction of the old, that which has become guilty, and not out of the possebilities which we possess, but in the impossible situation which confronts us, that the new shows itself as God's creative act. God's new reality is always like a novum ex nihilo . When all hopes have died, there comes the wave of the future like a spirit of resurrection into the dead bones (Ezek. 37), creating hope against hope.

For me, a thing must exist before I know it, but with God, it is different - he must know it before it has existence.

I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Second-degree faith is resurrection faith. It's a faith that refuses to put periods at the end of disappointments. It's a faith that believes that God can reverse the irreversible.

Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?

God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.