God's Creation Quotes - Page 3

• First time I saw an alligator gar I damn near threw up. They ain't natural anything get that big. It's ten feet long and three feet at the girth. Not one of God's creations like you and meSome say they ain't afraid of alligator gar fish. Bullshit. You look at that thing. It's big and mean. Swallow both of us. Them people say they ain't afraid tellin' lies.

  Bukka White

  Lying, Mean, Feet

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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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• I think we must ask ourselves if this is really what we want to do to God's creation, to drive it to extinction? Because extinction really is irreversible; species that go extinct are lost forever. This is not like Jurassic Park. We can't bring them back.

  Stuart L. Pimm

  Animal, Thinking, Jurassic Park

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• i am perfect because i am inseparable from the infinite, the force of life that creates the stars and the entire universe of light. i am God's creation. i don't need to be what i am not.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Stars, Light, Perfect

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• Scripture is something God had ‘let be,’ and so it is at once God’s creation and the creation of the dozens of people and communities and cultures who produced it.

  Brian D. McLaren

  People, Community, God's Creation

  Brian D. McLaren (2005). “A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/conservative, Mystical/poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian”, p.180, Zondervan

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• ...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered desperately was our future development. Were we going to go on destroying God's creation, fighting each other, hurting the other creatures of the His planet?

  Jane Goodall

  Hurt, Fighting, Special

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• Christian theology provides some of the best arguments for respecting animal life and for taking seriously animals as partners with us within God's creation. It may be ironical that this tradition, once thought of as the bastion of human moral exclusivity, should now be seen as the seed-bed for a creative understanding of animal liberation.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Animal, Creative

  Andrew Linzey (2016). “Christianity and the Rights of Animals”, p.5, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of that wisdom which is revealed to all: that we should know and praise God through His creation and that by means of the visible world we should understand whence we came, what we are, for what purpose we were made and where we are going. On the contrary, they travel through this present age in darkness... with... ignorance of God.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Ignorance, Mean

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• One of the things I find fascinating about God's creation is the way he seems to temper the negative environmental elements with corresponding positive ones. For instance, without the nearly ceaseless rains of the northwest, no incomparable green scenery would greet the eye from all directions. And the snow that snuggles atop Mt. Hood, Mt. Rainier, and Mt. St. Helens would not exist if, at lower elevations, there were no rain. . . . God's creative style ensures that something wonderful will offset something less than wonderful. In everything God seems to be balanced.

  Marilyn Meberg

  Rain, Eye, Snow

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• He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the ongoing extension and consecration of God's creation.

  Robert Ellsberg

  Ideas, God's Creation, Ongoing

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• I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Toxic Waste, Dancing, Singing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.169, Random House

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• You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep

  Alfred de Musset

  Believe, Ocean, Thinking

  Alfred de Musset, Michael Feingold (1993). “Fantasio and other plays”

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• Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Environmental, Care, Today

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• Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or even if one never is, such grace meets one in God's creation. There is grace in the pear tree that blooms and blushes. There is common grace in the sea (that massive cleanliness which we are proceeding to corrupt), in the fact that there was, before we laid hands on it, clean air. Our task is to appreciate that grace.

  Joseph Sittler

  Sea, Air, Hands

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• This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

  Cat Stevens

  Beauty, Men, Moon

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• When you invent something, there will always be people to criticise. God's creation is full of critics, but has God given up His creation because of the critics?

  Sri Chinmoy

  People, God's Creation, Given

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• Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, House, Rooms

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.71, A&C Black

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• Man is the namer; by this we recognize that through him pure language speaks. All nature, insofar as it communicates itself, communicates itself in language, and so finally in man. Hence, he is the lord of nature and can give names to things. Only through the linguistic being of things can he get beyond himself and attain knowledge of them-in the name. God's creation is completed when things receive their names from man, from whom in name language alone speaks.

  Walter Benjamin

  Men, Names, Giving

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• [Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. Because I do believe in God's creative power in having brought it all into being in the first place, I find that studying the natural world is an opportunity to observe the majesty, the elegance, the intricacy of God's creation.

  Richard Dawkins

  Wall, Believe, Opportunity

  Source: inters.org

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• It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Mean, Joy

  Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana”, p.68, 1st World Publishing

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• Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Desire

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• In particular, the emerging call from our nation's evangelicals to protect God's creation is substantial

  Jim Clyburn

  God's Creation, Protect, Particular

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• I come here today as a Christian, a person of faith who believes we've all been called to serve our fellow men and women and to honor God's creation. We want our girls to know right from wrong, to always tell the truth, to treat people no matter who they are with dignity and respect, no matter how different they may seem...because we want our girls to know we are all God's children and there's so much more that unites than divides us.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Christian, Children

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• Surfing is a huge passion of mine. I'm and addict to it in a sense. I think it is a good addiction. I spend about anywhere from two to eight hours a day in the water when I am home. I enjoy competing and traveling. I don't know, I just like being in the ocean and enjoying God's creation. Just the adrenaline you get and its good exercise you get at the same time.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Ocean, Passion, Home

  Source: yeticket.com

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• For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the lily. For the flowers have great virtues for all senses. For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's creation. For there is a language of flowers. For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

  Christopher Smart

  Flower, Angel, Blessing

  Christopher Smart, “Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3”

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