Creation Quotes - Page 40

• The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not created primarily for us. There is no doubt that God wants us to enjoy it and even use its resources to optimize a good life for ourselves. But the ultimate purpose of creation is worship. Nature and all living things were created to glorify God.

  Tony Campolo

  Good Life, Self, Doubt

  Tony Campolo (1995). “Carpe Diem: Seize the Day”, Thomas Nelson

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• The earth is at the same time mother, She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is mother of all, for contained in her are the seeds of all. The earth of human kind contains all moistness, all verdancy, all germinating power. It is in so many ways fruitful. All creation comes from it. Yet it forms not only the basic raw material for humankind, but also the substance of the incarnation of God's son.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Mother, Son, Environmental

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• The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order to be wine: things are precious before they are contributory. It is a false piety that walks through creation looking only for lessons which can be applied somewhere else. To be sure, God remains the greatest good; but, for all that, the world is still good in itself. Indeed, since He does not need it, its whole reason for being must lie in its own natural goodness; He has no use for it, only delight.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Lying, Wine, Mean

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• We see the most beautiful creations whither. The beautiful young maiden becomes the old woman and she hates her body because it isn't what it used to be. The young man becomes the old dotard who has trouble remembering.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Hate, Men

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• Unlike the experience of nirvana, traveling to other dimensions will not take you beyond suffering, nor will it help you experience the limitless ecstasy of creation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Suffering, Dimensions

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Reincarnation is a cyclic process. There are endless levels of creation, different universes. In each one something similar is taking place, the evolution of spirit through matter.

  Frederick Lenz

  Different Universes, Levels, Matter

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• All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order: and if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature.

  Isaac Newton

  Nature, Science, Intelligent

  Isaac Newton (2004). “Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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• Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.

  Harry Shearer

  Comedy, Faster, Term

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think in most cases, if you're with good people, comedy creation happens faster in collaboration. That's how I can tell if it's a good collaboration: If it's faster than me by myself, then it works. If it's slower than me by myself, then I get out of the room.

  Harry Shearer

  Thinking, People, Collaboration

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Fannie and Freddie are creations of government. They were given a huge leg up over their competitors.

  Nancy Pfotenhauer

  Government, Legs, Given

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• I hear it's better to use animal products than synthetics, which are harmful to humans and the earth... but destroying one segment of the creation to allegedly save another is the idea of fools!!!

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Ideas, Use

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• Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Gratitude, Love Is, Axes

  Friedrich Schiller (2017). “Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller”, p.20, Litres

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• Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

  Carl Jung

  Historical, Conservative, Instinct

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Men, Effectiveness

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.176, Psychology Press

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• The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

  Hermann Hesse

  Trust, Art, Magic

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• One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Motivation, Feelings, Essentials

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Literature & Existentialism”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Gestures, Stuff

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.11, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Logic, Language, Should

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• The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Blow, Wind

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Book, Creativity, Cutting

  "The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insiders Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers". Book by Karl Inglesias (p. 4), 2001.

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• Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

  Will Durant

  Insecurity, Culture, Chaos

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• As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.

  Will Durant

  Beautiful, Believe, Biblical

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• Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

  Winston Churchill

  Happiness, Art, Wonderful

  Winston Churchill (1942). “Thoughts and Adventures”

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• I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Believe, Single Child

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• A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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