Quotes about Creation

Can we conceive that man was so placed in the earth as to be ignorant of his own origin, and of the origin of those things which he enjoyed?

The true knowledge of God is not only to know him as the maker of the world, but also to be persuaded that the world is directed by him, and further to know the nature of that direction.

Since men do not create their own life but obtain life precariously from another, it follows that God dwells in them.

the elegant structure of the world serving us as a kind of mirror, in which we may behold God, though otherwise invisible.

For how can some idea of God come into your mind without your immediately thinking (since you are His creation) that by the right of creation you are subject to His rule? That your life ought to be devoted to His service? That all that you plan or say or do should be related to Him? If this is so, it clearly follows that your life is wickedly corrupt unless it is ruled in obedience to His holy will.

And, as Augustine expresses it (in Psalm cxliv.), since we are unable to comprehend Him, and are, as it were, overpowered by his greatness, our proper course is to contemplate his works, and

Faith was a gift of God whose main function was to create in man a certain knowledge of God's goodness toward us. The

We should forever keep in mind that we must not brood on the wickedness of man, but realize that he is God's image bearer.

Those who see the nightly splendor of the moon are possessed by perverse ingratitude if they do not recognize the goodness of God.

From the power of God we are naturally led to consider his eternity since that from which all other things derive their origin must necessarily be selfexistent and eternal.

We see it was the Lord's purpose to deliver nothing in his sacred oracles which we might not learn for edification. Therefore, instead of dwelling on superfluous matters, let it be sufficient for us briefly to hold, with regard to the nature of devils, that at their first creation they were the angels of God, but by revolting they both ruined themselves, and became the instruments of perdition to others.

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.