Creation Quotes - Page 16

• The saints show us that being a baptized Christian means living as a new creation, rejoicing in a life radically different from the status quo of the world. All the holy people, whose lives fill this book, show readers how to let the grace of God in the sacraments create their lives anew.

  Stephen J. Binz

  Christian, Book, Mean

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• Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

  Aldo Leopold

  Impossible, Wilderness, Resources

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.234, Library of America

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• Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.

  Timothy Keller

  Honor, God Image, Humans

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• By loving and leaving all that oil has done for us ... we are able to then begin the creation of a world which is more resilient, more nourishing, and in which we find ourselves fitter, more skilled and more connected to each other.

  Rob Hopkins

  Motivation, Inspiration, Oil

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• In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter of looking at the drawings, paintings, musical compositions, and poems that have been and are being created; it is a matter of being drawn into the individual work of art, of realizing that it has been made by a real human being, and trying to discover the secret of its creation.

  Ruth Whitman

  Art, Real, Drawing

  Ruth Whitman (1982). “Becoming a poet: source, process, practice”, Writer

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• Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union and Bulgaria.

  Todor Zhivkov

  Unions, Balkans, Cases

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

  Abdus Salam

  Heritage, Common, Mankind

  Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.10, World Scientific

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• Human beings are members of a whole,
  In creation of one essence and soul.
  If one member is afflicted with pain,
  Other members uneasy will remain.
  If you have no sympathy for human pain,
  The name of human you cannot retain.

  Saadi

  Pain, Essence, Names

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.5, Innovations and Information

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• Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty summits, I view my past, dream of the future, and with unusual acuity I am allowed to experience the present moment. My strength renewed, my vision cleared, in the mountains I celebrate creation. On each journey I am reborn.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Dream, Past, Journey

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• Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure.

  Stephen Hales

  Wise, Science, Numbers

  1727 Vegetable Staticks.

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• Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge and practice circulate and take hold. This way of understanding the dispersion of power helps us realize that power is not simply about certain individuals being targeted for death or exclusion by a ruler, but instead about the creation of norms that distribute vulnerability and security.

  Dean Spade

  Practice, Understanding, Matter

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• Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

  Miroslav Volf

  Goal, Desire, Fonts

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• Creation occurs when ideas and individuals collide and collude.

  Richard Koch

  Ideas, Individual, Collide

  Richard Koch (2003). “The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best”, p.14, Crown Business

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• Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through the agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into the multiple forms of existence. Some of the various densities of the aether have only a partial or probablistic differentiation into existence, and are somewhat indeterminate in space and time. In the same way that mass exists as a curvature in space-time, extending with a gradually diminishing force to infinity that we recognize as gravity, so do all events, particularly events involving the human mind, send ripples through all creation.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Space, Agency, Mind

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.52, Weiser Books

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• Gardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds are germinating and sprouting, and they should be planted in a nutrient-rich soil. Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Water, Healthy, Doe

  Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Ina May's Guide to Childbirth”, p.189, Random House

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• The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

  Thomas Paine

  Miracle, Needs, Tricks

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.341

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• This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling, and we have failed to care for it. And as our collective contempt for the non-human world has intensified, so has our contempt for each other. We have failed to care for each other.

  Robert Jensen

  Simple, Discovery, World

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• The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life….every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood…. Your job is to marshal the talent you do have and find people who believe in your work. What’s important, finally, is that you create, and that those creations define for you what matters most, that which cannot be extinguished even in the face of silence, solitude, and rejection.

  Betsy Lerner

  Jobs, Believe, Writing

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• Dwight D. Eisenhower changed America forever with the creation of the interstate highway program.

  Joel Garreau

  America, Forever, Dwight D Eisenhower

  Joel Garreau (2011). “Edge City: Life on the New Frontier”, p.14, Anchor

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• Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners... Love leads us to act with impeccability, integrity, and excellence... Those things are the opposite of a poverty consciousness; they're the stuff of spiritual wealth creation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Integrity, Opposites

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• Because creation was made in the image of a God who is equally one and many, the human race will finally be reunited and our racial and cultural diversity will remain intact in the renewed world. The human race finally lives together in peace and interdependence. Glory to God in the highest goes with peace on earth.

  Timothy Keller

  Race, Diversity, Together

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.217, Penguin

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• Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are subject to our control.

  Wayne Muller

  Spring, Void, Emptiness

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• It should not be difficult to accept the idea that someone else is, in 'your experience of them', in part your self-creation. But it is difficult and sometimes impossible. Impossible because accepting the idea that you are in part creating your 'other' forces you to take on board a high degree of self responsibility. Few of us easily do that. p.234

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Responsibility, Self, Ideas

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• Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation.

  Sergio Pinto

  Nature, Sometimes, Reflecting

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• Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Knowing, Intention, Better Life

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