Quotes about Creation

To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.

What I want to know is whether God had any choice in the creation of the universe.

Ideas come from God.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;

At breakfast that morning I had been struck by the lively distance of its colours. But that was no longer the point. I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

The truth is, of course, that we are all organically related to God, to Nature and to our fellow-men. If every human being were constantly and consciously in a proper relationship with his divine, natural and social environments there would be only so much suffering as Creation makes inevitable.

It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.

Every individual being, from the atom up to the most highly organized of living bodies and the most exalted of finite minds, may be thought of [...] as a point where a ray of the primordial Godhead meets one of the differentiated, creaturely emanations of that same Godhead's creative energy.

He has revealed Himself generally to us through creation, but more specifically through the Word.

If I had written the greatest book, composed the greatest symphony, painted the most beautiful painting or carved the most exquisite figure I could not have felt the more exalted creator than I did when they placed my child in my arms.