Quotes about Creation
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.
- William Wordsworth
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Word of God is the creation we behold. And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.
- Thomas Paine
We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.
- William Wordsworth
All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
- Henry Ward Beecher
When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.
- John Calvin
Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.
- Joseph Campbell
The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.
- Pope John Paul II
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson