Quotes about Creation
Which takes us back to this creation poem, which grounds all creativity in the questions that are asked of all of us: What kind of world are we making? Which always leads to the pressing personal question: What kind of life am I creating?
- Rob Bell
What new and good thing is going to come out of even this? When you ask this question, you have taken something that was out of your control and reframed it as another opportunity to take part in the ongoing creation of the world.
- Rob Bell
All work is ultimately creative work because all of us are taking part in the ongoing creation of the world. There's
- Rob Bell
read in the Psalms, The earth is the LORD's and everything in it.
- Rob Bell
This is a pattern. Something bonded with something like it, and that introduced something new, something more complex, something that previously didn't exist. Something the universe had never seen before. All because of a drive. A drive to bond, to unite, to come together. Where does this drive come from? It comes from within. This
- Rob Bell
Connection is an engine of creation.
- Rob Bell
In that ancient Genesis poem, this animating energy is called Spirit. And in that poem, Spirit enters and animates forms, which then create new forms.
- Rob Bell
Particles couldn't contain the fullness of Spirit, and that led to something new.
- Rob Bell
That's what Spirit does, it brings about new creation. And what was true thirteen billion years ago is true now.
- Rob Bell
The universe is unfinished, and God is looking for partners in the ongoing creation of the world.
- Rob Bell
A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.
- Pope Benedict XVI
The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).
- CS Lewis