Quotes about Creation

In Genesis God is multiplying the mystery of the Trinity in his image bearers by creating another individual who stands on level ground with the man and is completely different from, yet one with him. The oxygen hasn't grown thin after all. God is still vision casting--this time for male/female relationships.

The call to bear God's image is an invitation to get to know God deeply.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what he thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what his painting isn't, until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is, you're off and running.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works.

There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

Every April, God rewrites the Book of Genesis.

It is only as a unity in diversity that the Christian community will become an inviting community in a society which is otherwise pretty uniform. Creation is motley and diverse, and the new creation even more so.