Quotes about Creation

A writer's job is to tell the truth. His standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be. For facts can be observed badly; but when a good writer is creating something, he has time and scope to make an absolute truth.6

Some say that in writing you can never possess anything until you have given it away or, if you are in a hurry, you may have to throw it away.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

Can you imagine anyone making wine because it tastes like strawberries?

Remember the woods were God's first temples.

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.

The degree to which you will ever be financially compensated is inexorably linked to the obvious greater value (OGV) that you create for someone else.

Whenever I talk about the Bahamas and its beauty, I could never stop talking about my God, who has given us all of this beauty.

I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior; or how to save and fix and rescue; or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.

Wherever and whenever God is moving in a new and fresh way, there emerges a new song!

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.