Quotes about Creation

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.

We are accustomed to believe that our world was created by God speaking the Word; but I ask, may it not rather be that he wrote it, wrote a Word so long we have yet to come to the end of it? May it not be that God continually writes the world, the world and all that is in it?

Hand in hand they stroke her womb, watching for it to flicker and blossom. p. 3

Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.

Oh what was the racket that backeted and smashed in raging might, to make this oil-puddle world?--

I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.