Quotes about Creation

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.

Sun, moon, and stars beckon people to worship the Creator—until people lose sight of the living God and begin to worship the sun, moon, and stars themselves.

God creates history, while people create an epic or a drama, drawn either from God's history or from unreality and pure fiction.

Kuyper notes that the scholar is distinct in setting the scope of his stewardship on the mind itself. "Not merely to live," he writes, "but to know that you live and how you live, and how things around you live, and how all that hangs together and lives out of the one efficient cause that proceeds from God's power and wisdom.

This picture of a God who continues to love the creation and who expedites the means to restrain and preserve in the midst of human fallenness—this is the picture that Abraham Kuyper fleshes out in this wonderful treatise.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.

God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect escapes His eye.

Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.

By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

...Men and women were created to be jointly the guarantee of the future of the humanity not only a physical guarantee, but also a moral one.