Creation Quotes - Page 20

• Christianity offers not merely a consolation but a restoration - not just of the life we had but of the life we always wanted but never achieved. And because the joy will be even greater for all that evil, this means the final defeat of all those forces that would have destroyed the purpose of God in creation, namely, to live with his people in glory and delight forever.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Mean

  "Walking with God through Pain and Suffering".

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• Chaos is the soul of creation. It plows the ground of intuition. Without chaos, nothing will grow.

  Michele Cassou

  Soul, Intuition, Chaos

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• I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.

  Liz Phair

  Creativity, People, Finished

  "POP MUSC : Exile From Rockville : After her seductive debut album wowed critics, Liz Phair was poised for stardom. Then along came her second record, and anything seemed possible. But who knew that meant putting a career on hold? She knew". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. March 5, 1995.

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• He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as "rank presumption".

  William Gaddis

  Responsibility, Men, Tree

  William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt

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• As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, School, People

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Spiritual, Art, Blessed

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• The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Space, Trying, Six

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.22, Macmillan

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• I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

  Brian Eno

  Duplicate, Happens, Effects

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• The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire ... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire.

  Carl Jung

  War, Passion, Artist

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• Change no man’s religion, change no man’s politics, interrupt the sovereignty of no nation. Instead, teach Man to use what he has and what he knows to the factual creation, within any political reference, of a civilization on Earth for the first time.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Civilization, Political

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought”, p.3, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God's creations.

  Michael Jackson

  Stars, Children, Animal

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• Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.

  Karen Armstrong

  Reading, Purpose, Stories

  Karen Armstrong (2004). “A Short History Of Myth”, p.137, Canongate Books

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• Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Reading, Reality, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.968, Manonmani Publishers

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• Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soul, Stopping, Knows

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Jobs, Spring, Writing

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.198, Grove Press

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• Every subatomic interaction consists of the annihilation of the original particles and the creation of new subatomic particles. The subatomic world is a continual dance of creation and annihilation, of mass changing into energy and energy changing into mass. Transient forms sparkle in and out of existence, creating a never-ending, forever newly created reality.

  Gary Zukav

  Reality, Creating, Forever

  Gary Zukav (1979). “The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics”, Bantam

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• When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

  Salvador Dali

  Doubt, Mind, Sound

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• Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you have to create after some preordained model. You don't have to write like myself, or King or Anne Rice: be yourself. Nothing is more wonderful than discovering a new voice, particularly if it happens to be your own.

  Clive Barker

  Being Yourself, Kings, Stars

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from May 19, 2013

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• Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation

  Carl Sagan

  Animal, Men, Fortuitous

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

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• Achieving goals is a creative process. The first step in the creation of your primary goal takes place in your conscious mind. Through the aid of your senses and/or your imagination, you must form a very clear, concise image of yourself already in possession of your goal.

  Bob Proctor

  Imagination, Goal, Creative

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Oct 03, 2011

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• The struggle ends when the gratitude begins. The search is over when the finding starts. And the finding is not a finding at all, but a creating. You cannot find what you have been struggling for, but you can create it. And the jump-start of creation is gratitude.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Gratitude, Struggle, Creating

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• Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Joy, Body

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• Pleasure is a manifestation of self-re-creation.
  Pleasure is worship because it replenishes the soul.

  Zsuzsanna Budapest

  Self, Soul, Worship

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• You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Feelings, Wave

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• Love is the sole impulse for creation; and the man who does not have it as the greatest incentive in his life has never developed the real creative instinct. No one can swing out into the Universal without love, for the whole universe is based upon it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Real, Love Is, Men

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “Creative Mind”, p.27, Penguin

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