Creation Quotes - Page 29

• Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.

  Richard Rohr

  Creativity, Process, Endless

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• In 1650 Bishop Ussher dated the creation from the genealogy given in the Bible at 4004 B.C.; for a long time (even for some people today) this was accepted as "gospel truth." However, if you accept a miracle such as this, what's wrong with creation 5 minutes ago? It would be scarcely more difficult for the Creator to create all of us sitting here, with our memories of events that never really happened, with our worn shoes that were never really new, with spots of soup that were never really spilled on our ties, and so on. Such a beginning is logically possible, but extremely hard to believe!

  Leigh Page

  Memories, Believe, Science

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• Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

  George Gershwin

  Ideas, Use, Originality

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• Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, "No."

  David Platt

  Audacity, Looks, Faces

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• Tzu Li went to see Tzu Lai who was dying. Leaning against the door, he said, 'Great is the Creator! What will he make of you now? Will he make you into a rat's liver? Will he make you into an insect's leg?' Tzu-Lai replied, 'The universe gave me my body so I may be carried, my life so I may work, my old age so I may repose, and my death so I may rest. To regard life as good is the way to regard death as good. . . . If I regard the universe as a great furnace and creation as a master foundryman, why should anywhere I go not be all right?'

  Zhuangzi

  Life, Doors, Dying

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• When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That is what the political left is all about, as you can see by the incessant creation of new restrictions in places where they are strongly entrenched in power, such as San Francisco or New York.

  Thomas Sowell

  New York, Gun, Thinking

  "Random Thoughts". capitalismmagazine.com. August 25, 2008.

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• Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Space, Ego, Looks

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• Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form, all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound, that it's music.

  Michael Jackson

  Believe, Sound, World

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Aug 08, 2013

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• The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

  Plato

  Art, Mean, Men

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• We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions occur weekly. In ancient Greek the word “chaos” means “gaping void” or “yawning emptiness.” The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms of literature, music, poetry, art and cinema.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Mean, Yawning

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• God is a tremendous supporter of creation, especially of all living beings.

  Thomas Keating

  Supporter

  Thomas Keating (2012). “Invitation to Love 20th Anniversary Edition: The Way of Christian Contemplation”, p.57, A&C Black

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• The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

  Anais Nin

  Feelings, Vision, Source

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• God is not a 'being' removed from creation, ruling it from outside in the manner of a patriarchal ruler; God is the source of being that underlies creation and grounds its nature and future potential for continual transformative renewal in biophilic mutuality.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

  Alan Watts

  Enlightenment, Awakening, Recognition

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• I dream of a society that is continuously creating knowledge, where each individual is a part of this creation, where youngsters can pursue courses with freedom of choice, where technology is used for universal access of education and yet the importance of the Guru is retained.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Dream, Technology

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• The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Lying, Creativity

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• The challenge to each human is creation. Will you create with reverence, or with neglect?

  Gary Zukav

  Challenges, Neglect, Reverence

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Mar 20, 2013

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• Distrust brings frustration and fear. So therefore, the lonely feeling automatically come. So, lonely feeling is not creation of environment, but creation of your own mental attitude.

  Dalai Lama

  Lonely, Attitude, Frustration

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• People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is no solution to poverty. Poverty is the creation of opportunities like everybody else has, not the poor people, so bring them to the poor people, so that they can change their lives.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Opportunity, People, Support

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• In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

  E. O. Wilson

  Art, Mind, Stories

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• Thus, those who say they would have right without its correlate, wrong; or good government without its correlate, misrule, do not apprehend the great principles of the universe, nor the nature of all creation.

  Zhuangzi

  Government, Principles, Universe

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• Christ sits in the body at the right hand of God the Father, but we do not hold that the right hand of the Father is actual place. For how could He that is uncircumscribed have a right hand limited by place? But we understand the right hand of the Father to be the glory and honor of the Godhead in which the Son of God, Who existed as God before the ages, and is of like essence to the Father, and in the end became flesh, has a seat in the body, His flesh sharing in the glory. For He along with His flesh is adored with one adoration by all creation.

  John of Damascus

  Christian, Father, Son

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• Being bodiless, God is nowhere, but as God He is everywhere. If there were a mountain, a place or any part of Creation where God was not, then He would be found to be in some way circumscribed. So He is everywhere and in everything. In what way is this so? Is He contained not by each part but by the whole? No, because then that would be a body. He embraces and encompasses everything, and is Himself everywhere and also above everything, worshipped by true worshippers in His Spirit and Truth.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Mountain, Way

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• Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke”, p.126, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.

  Linda Hogan

  Song, Animal, Stories

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