Creation Quotes - Page 15

• We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.

  Carl Sagan

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  Carl Sagan (1973). “Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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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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• The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.

  Thomas Paine

  Handwriting, Deism, Existence

  Thomas Paine (2013). “The Thomas Paine Reader”, p.557, Simon and Schuster

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• The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

  Eliphas Levi

  Men, Creation Of Man, Perfect

  Eliphas Levi (2015). “Transcendental Magic”, p.176, Eliphas Levi

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• The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.

  Dalai Lama

  Family, Happy, Buddhist

  Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler, M.D. (2009). “The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World”, p.273, Harmony

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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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• I am the dust in the sunlight,
  I am the ball of the sun . . .
  I am the mist of morning,
  the breath of evening . . . .
  I am the spark in the stone,
  the gleam of gold in the metal . . . .
  The rose and the nightingale
  drunk with its fragrance.
  I am the chain of being,
  the circle of the spheres,
  The scale of creation,
  the rise and the fall.
  I am what is and is not . . .
  I am the soul in all.

  Rumi

  Morning, Fall, Dust

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• Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence that reduce stress and anxiety, whereas anger and hatred come from frustration and undermine our sense of trust. Because of ignorance, many of our problems are our own creation. Education, however, is the instrument that increases our ability to employ our own intelligence.

  Dalai Lama

  Trust, Education, Confidence

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• The new program for children in failing schools will be the largest statewide school choice program in the nation. The creation of that program plus the expansion of two others illustrates that states with the greatest experience with school choice are the most likely to expand it.

  Clint Bolick

  Children, School, Two

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• There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Body, Glory

  "Hush Don't Say Anything to God". Book by Rumi, translated by Shahram Shiva, 1999.

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• Let us protect Christ in our lives, so that we can protect others, so that we can protect creation!

  Pope Francis

  Christ, Protect, Common Good

  Pope Francis' Homily for inaugural Mass of Petrine Ministry, w2.vatican.va. March 19, 2013.

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• The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life. These realities are increasingly under attack from powerful forces, which threaten to disfigure God’s plan for creation.

  Pope Francis

  Powerful, Reality, Effort

  "Pope Francis's meeting with Kim Davis should come as no surprise". www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2015.

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• Creation is the highest form of Divinity, and your birthright. Truth is, you are creating all the time. The central question in your life is whether you are doing this consciously or unconsciously.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Creating, Divinity, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Sep 25, 2012

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• Nurturing and cherishing creation is a command God gives not only at the beginning of history, but to each of us. It is part of his plan; it means causing the world to grow responsibly, transforming it so that it may be a garden, a habitable place for everyone.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Garden, Giving

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• Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity in the cloud, the oil in the earth. He left the rivers unbridged and the forests unfelled and the cities unbuilt. God gives to man the challenge of raw materials, not the ease of finished things. He leaves the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Men, Clouds, Skills

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• Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

  James Earl Jones

  Dream, Shining, Needs

  James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company

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• Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first
  international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the
  adoption of the first human rights laws and to the creation of the
  first human rights non-governmenta l organization. And yet despite
  the efforts of the international community to combat this abhorrent
  practice, it is still widely prevalent in all
  its insidious forms, old and new.

  Kofi Annan

  Real, Rights, Law

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• While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's greatest experts on anger, jealousy, and self-deprecatio n, as well as on joyfulness, clarity, and insight. Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.

  Pema Chodron

  Wise, Self, Knowing

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• Life is a creation, not a discovery. You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Discovery, Each Day, Life Is

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.75, Penguin

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• As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Art, Drama, Opera

  Luciano Pavarotti (1995). “Pavarotti, My World”, Crown Pub

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• Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes to assist you in turning into the gorgeous masterpiece you were born to be. Join the conspiracy to shower all of creation with blessings.

  Rob Brezsny

  Blessing, Illumination, Miracle

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• With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.

  Tara Brach

  Falling In Love, Children, Grateful

  "A Heart That Is Ready for Anything" by Tara Brach, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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• You do not lose your value or preciousness when you grow to be a adult. You are still that miraculous creation. You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

  Pablo Casals

  Children, Adults, World

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• To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

  Jay Samit

  Successful, Innovation, Capture

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2015

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