Creation Quotes - Page 12

• All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.

  Francis of Assisi

  Brother, Children, Father

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• In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.

  Victor Hugo

  Flower, Animal, Ethics

  "The Alps and Pyrenees".

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• All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Taste

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime, of surface mildew, in which a ferment is already working. A turbulent, spasmodic sap, a presage and expectation of a new way of being, breaking with mineral perpetuity and boldly exchanging it for the doubtful privilege of being able to tremble, decay, and multiply.

  Roger Caillois

  Expectations, Challenges, Secret

  Roger Caillois (1985). “The writing of stones”, Univ of Virginia Pr

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• The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation. From Him who created all, flow life and light and gladness, throughout the realms of illimitable space. From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, animate and inanimate, in their unshadowed beauty and perfect joy, declare that God is love.

  Ellen G. White

  Light, Space, Perfect

  Ellen G. White “The Great Controversy—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• In our day heaven and earth are on tiptoe waiting for the emerging of the Spirit-led, Spirit-intoxicaed, Spirit-empowered peole. All of creation watches expectantly for the springing up of a disciplined, freely gathered, martyr people who know in this likfe the life and power of the Kindgom of God. It happened before, it can happen again.

  Richard J. Foster

  People, Waiting, Heaven

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• One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God's holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, in the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord, to which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to God

  Abraham Kuyper

  Passion, Home, School

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• History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.

  Tavis Smiley

  Jobs, Loss, Trying

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• But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

  Duncan Sheik

  Important, Records, World

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• When we’re unaware that we share the power to co-create reality with the universe itself, that power slips away from us, causing our dream to become a nightmare. We begin to feel we’re the victims of an unknown and frightening creation that we’re unable to influence, and events seem to control and trap us. The only way to end this dreadful reality is to awaken to the fact that it too is a dream—and then recognize our ability to write a better story, one that the universe will work with us to manifest.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Dream, Writing, Reality

  Alberto Villoldo (2010). “Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the writer, the ‘I’ of journalism is connected to the writer only in a tenuous way—the way, say, that Superman is connected to Clark Kent. The journalistic ‘I’ is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.

  Janet Malcolm

  Character, Ideas, Greek

  "The Journalist and the Murderer". Book by Janet Malcolm, March 20, 1989.

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• I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind.

  Peter Akinola

  Issues, Suffering, Church

  "What Archbishop Akinola Said (or Not)". www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk. February 04, 2005.

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• Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.

  Jack McDevitt

  Men, Thinking, Views

  Jack McDevitt (2005). “Seeker”, p.134, Penguin

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• Self-creation is the highest art.

  David Zindell

  Art, Self, Highest

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• We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the world of artefact. We search for a link between who we are and what we have made, between who we are and what we might create, between who we are and what, through our intimacy with our own creations, we might become.

  Sherry Turkle

  World, Links, Might

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• A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to be creative on a finite level, should certainly have more understanding of his responsibility to treat God's creation with sensitivity, and should develop his talents to do something to beautify his little spot on the earth's surface.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Christian, Responsibility, Creator God

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Flower

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities. The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true, the stronger the image will be - the greater its emotional power and poetic reality..

  Pierre Reverdy

  Reality, Emotional, Two

  "Oeuvres complètes" edited by Marguerite Bonnet, Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1988.

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• The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

  Norman O. Brown

  Substance, Body, Self Destruction

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• I study theology in the works of creation and find in it new reasons for adoring the creator.

  Jan Potocki

  Study, Reason, Theology

  Jan Potocki (2006). “The Manuscript Found in Saragossa”, p.495, Penguin UK

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• In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue.

  R. H. Barlow

  Dream, Lying, Men

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• My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.

  Nuala O'Faolain

  Records, Accepting, Burned

  Nuala O'Faolain (1998). “Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman”

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• Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

  Charles Frankel

  Worry, Anxiety, Intellectual

  CHARLES FRANKEL (1956). “THE CASE FOR MODERN MAN”

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• Among the few I have indicated, is there no dynamic man of action, the rebel who will help determine the aspect of the collective expression of tomorrow? Ponder this question and know that to make beautiful creations for the sake of their aesthetic value will have no social significance tomorrow, will be nonsensical self-gratification. Every era contains the conditions for providing a rebel.

  Piet Zwart

  Beautiful, Men, Self

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• Those who start in business with too little money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much. Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

  Brian Tracy

  Imagination, Energy, Wealth Creation

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