Creation Quotes

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006.

Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon.

Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.