Quotes about Creation

Adam first, Eve next, and also, confused about her role, the first outlaw?

If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Wherever he was—on the porch, at the kitchen table, in the garden, in the living room reading—that's where the power and deference were. He didn't exert power; he assumed it. And it was in part from knowing him that I felt I could understand and create the men in Ruby—their easy assumption of uncontested authority.

Because each had discovered years before that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and triumph were forbidden to them, they had set about creating something else to be

Watches have watch makers, paintings have painters, designs have designers, and creation has a creator

God isn't amalgamated into His creation. He is not a tree, a river, or a butterfly. Rather than being a part of His creation, God is above and outside of it.

When we are acting like God, we are being ourselves! The ramifications of having God as our Daddy (rather than some ape dragging his knuckles in the African jungle somewhere) is life changing. I hope you can see that what you believe about your origin makes a difference in the way you value yourself and humanity in general.

Since we were created in the image of God, we become like the God we imagine (image).

Without this playing with fantasy, no work has ever come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

God has delegated to us--to all of us--a profound responsibility for what is happening all around us and for the care and wise stewardship of all creation.