Quotes about Creation

Music is a gift. We make it to give it away.

Colorado..... When God carved this place with His words, He lingered.

If God was down here drinking His coffee, then He was on his second cup, because He'd already Windexed the sky. Only the streaks remained.

My job was to create a shelf, a platform. Scaffolding. To fill the air around her with a structure. Something safe.

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos...

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

The only thing that can bring unfailing joy to the soul is to understand and know God. Everything depends on what He is. He has created us and put us in our present environment, and we are absolutely in His power.

The rise of modernity corresponded with the decline of an approach that regarded the created order as sacramental in character. The patristic and medieval mind recognized that the heavenly reality of the Word of God constituted an eternal mystery; the observable appearances of creation pointed to and participated in this mystery.

The entire cosmos is meant to serve as a sacrament: a material gift from God in and through which we enter into the joy of his heavenly presence.

Everything in the so-called world of nature is meant to lead us back to God. In that sense, created matter is meant to serve eucharistically. By treating the world as a eucharistic offering in Christ, received from God and offered to him, we are drawn into God's presence.

The beautiful is the radiance which something gives off simply because it is something, because it exists.

The Christian must hold that all created being, whether substance or accident, comes from nothing and therefore stands far below God's being in dignity;