Quotes about Creation
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
- Charles Dickens
Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.
- Eric Metaxas
Isn't composing music akin to film direction?
- Ilaiyaraaja
If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.
- Origen
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
If you don't recognize that God created you for eternity, you'll invest your life in the wrong things.
- Richard Blackaby
In our day heaven and earth are on tiptoe waiting for the emerging of the Spirit-led, Spirit-intoxicated, Spirit-empowered people. All of creation watches expectantly for the springing up of a disciplined, freely gathered, martyr people who know in this life the life and power of the Kingdom of God. It happened before, it can happen again.
- Richard Foster
Whatever good, true, or perfect things we can say about humanity or creation, we can say of God exponentially. God is the beauty of creation and humanity multiplied to the infinite power.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Your True Self is who you are, and always have been in God . . . The great surprise and irony is that you, or who you think you are, have nothing to do with its original creation or its demise. It's sort of disempowering and utterly empowering at the same time, isn't it? All you can do is nurture it.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
At best, the theory of substitutionary atonement has inoculated us against the true effects of the Gospel, causing us to largely "thank" Jesus instead of honestly imitating him. At worst, it led us to see God as a cold, brutal figure, who demands acts of violence before God can love his own creation
- Fr. Richard Rohr
As G. K. Chesterton once wrote, Your religion is not the church you belong to, but the cosmos you live inside of. Once we know that the entire physical world around us, all of creation, is both the hiding place and the revelation place for God, this world becomes home, safe, enchanted, offering grace to any who look deeply. I call that kind of deep and calm seeing "contemplation.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Once we know that the entire physical world around us, all of creation, is both the hiding place and the revelation place for God, this world becomes home, safe, enchanted, offering grace to any who look deeply. I call that kind of deep and calm seeing "contemplation.
- Fr. Richard Rohr