Quotes about Creation

The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose.

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.

Only because a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time.

It is why God created matter, most of all the human body, which has the greatest power to make spirit visible. (Thus the philosopher Wittgenstein, asked what a human soul could possibly look like, answered, "Like a human body.")

not human nature with perfect preternatural gifts such as it was in unfallen Adam.

The quantity comes from the efficient cause but the quality comes from the formal cause.

The "good news" part of this point is that we can cooperate in salvation, as we cannot cooperate in creation.

All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a painting or a person. Motherhood is the primary art, the art of creating (procreating) people.

we are participating in His actual work.

Every child is created uniquely by God. God puts a certain formula in the heart of every child. And it is the parents' challenge to figure out the combination. We need to spend time studying, looking, listening, and observing.

It reminds us of a statement attributed to Voltaire: "God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to return the favor ever since".