Quotes about Creation
A heaven you created by yourself will never be heaven for long.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
I further believe that a free and loving God would create things that continue to recreate themselves, exactly as all parents desire for their children.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Faith is the opposite of resentment, cynicism, and negativity. Faith is always, finally, a self-fulfilling prophecy. Faith actually begins to create what it desires. Faith always recreates the good world.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The pressed clay or "dust" of Adam has then become the immortal diamond that is Christ.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
What was God up to in those first moments of creation? Was God totally invisible before the universe began? Or is there even such a thing as "before"? Why did God create at all? What was God's purpose in creating? Is the universe itself eternal? Or is the universe a creation in time as we know it—like Jesus himself?
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Is there any evidence for why God created the heavens and the earth? What was God up to? Was there any divine intention or goal? Or do we even need a creator "God" to explain the universe?
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Everything is the "child of God." No exceptions. When you think of it, what else could anything be? All creatures must in some way carry the divine DNA of their Creator.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Your True Self is who you objectively are from the beginning, in the mind and heart of God
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Creation itself, the natural world, already "believes" the Gospel, and lives the pattern of death and resurrection, even if unknowingly. The natural world "believes" in necessary suffering as the very cycle of life: just observe the daily dying of the sun so all things on this planet can live, the total change of the seasons, the plants and trees along with it, the violent world of animal predators and prey.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
We Christians did not take this world seriously, I am afraid, because our notion of God or salvation didn't include or honor the physical universe.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
History is still waiting for the Christian mind to "shift" back to what has always been true since the initial creation, which is the only thing that will ever make it a universal (or truly catholic) religion. The Universal Christ was just too big an idea, too monumental a shift for most of the first two thousand years.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Reality, creation, nature itself, what I call the "the First Body of Christ," has no choice in the matter of necessary suffering. It lives the message without saying yes or no to it. It holds and resolves all the foundational forces, all the elementary principles and particles within itself—willingly it seems.
- Fr. Richard Rohr