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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
-Ansel Adams
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All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
-Cecil Frances Alexander
Hymn, All Things Bright and Beautiful
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If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.
-Alfonso X
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We can make inspired guesses, but we don
-Isaac Asimov
Omni, November, 1983
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God's first creature, which was light.
-Francis Bacon
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O Children of Men! Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other. Ponder at all times in your hearts how ye were created. Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light! Heed ye this counsel that ye may obtain the fruit of holiness from the tree of wondrous glory.
-Baha'u'llah
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On certain mornings, as we turn a corner,
an exquisite dew falls on our heart
and then vanishes.
But the freshness lingers, and this, always,
is what the heart needs.
The earth must have risen in just such a light
the morning the world was born.
-Albert Camus
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Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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At the heart of the debate over intelligent design is this question: Can a scientific explanation of the history of life include the actions of an unseen higher being?
The proponents of intelligent design, a school of thought that some have argued should be taught alongside evolution in the nation's schools, say that the complexity and diversity of life go beyond what evolution can explain.
Biological marvels like the optical precision of an eye, the little spinning motors that propel bacteria and the cascade of proteins that cause blood to clot, they say, point to the hand of a higher being at work in the world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/national/22design.html
-Kenneth Chang
In Explaining Life's Complexity, Darwinists and Doubters Clash, August 22, 2005
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Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.
-L. A. Coulson
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when god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began
-e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings
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And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness and that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything.
-Umberto Eco
The Island of the Day Before
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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production -- only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
-Barbara Ehrenreich
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Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
-Thomas Fuller
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Thou didst create the night, but I made the lamp. Thou didst create clay, but I made the cup. Thou didst create the deserts, mountains and forests, I produced the orchards, gardens and groves. It is I who made the glass out of stone, and it is I who turn a poison into an antidote.
-Sir Muhammad Iqbal
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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?
-Samuel Johnson
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I no longer ask the young man's question: How far will I go? My questions are now those of the mature person: When it is over, what will my life have been about? First as Martin Buber taught, life is meeting. We come alive only when we relate to others. Secondly, we are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great dramatic leap in results. Finally, we are here to finish god's labors. One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly two thousand years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread. Instead He created wheat for us to mill and bake into bread. Why? So that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.
-Rabbi Harold Kushner
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It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
-Samuel Levenson
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
-James Russell Lowell
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Imagine the Creator as a stand up comedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.
-H. L. Mencken
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In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
-Henry Miller
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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
-Christopher Morley
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The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
-Stephen Nachmanovitch
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This most beautiful system The Universe could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
-Sir Isaac Newton
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The finiteness, the dependency, and the insufficiency of man
-Reinhold Niebuhr
The Nature and Destiny of Man, Volume 1 Human Nature (Up-per Saddle River, New Jersey:Prentice Hall, 1964), 167
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Books about Creation
