Quotes about Creation

God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to choose against temptation here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God.

Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven.

Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.