Quotes about Creation

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done.

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

We are all star stuff.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth, " the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on.

A world without time would be a world without God, a world existing in and by itself, without renewal, without a Creator.

To observe the seventh day does not mean merely to obey or to conform to the strictness of a divine command. To observe is to celebrate the creation of the world and to create the seventh day all over again, the majesty of holiness in time, "a day of rest, a day of freedom," a day which is like "a lord and king of all other days," 17 a lord and king in the commonwealth of time.

Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

When all work is brought to a standstill, the candles are lit. Just as creation began with the word, Let there be light ! so does the celebration of creation begin with the kindling of lights. It is the woman who ushers in the joy and sets up the most exquisite symbol, light, to dominate the atmosphere of the home.

He is in need of the work of man for the fulfillment of His ends in the world.

The ultimate concept in Greek philosophy is the idea of cosmos, of order; the first teaching in the Bible is the idea of creation. Translated into eternal principles, cosmos means fate, while creation means freedom. The essential meaning of creation is not the idea that the universe was created at a particular moment in time. The essential meaning of creation is, as Maimonides explained, the idea that the universe did not come about by necessity but as a result of freedom.