Handiwork Quotes

• The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

  James Joyce

  Art, Invisible, Creation

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916).

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• The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Work, Thinking, Pay

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.69, Oxford University Press

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• He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Growth, Shapes, Doe

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "Philosophy ". Chapter 2: "The Pretence of Knowledge", pp. 33-34, 1978.

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• Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

  David Seabury

  Love, Jealousy, Hate

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• After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

  James Prescott Joule

  Next, Obedience, Goodness

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• Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of the Lord. When I paint, I try to represent the beauty of God's creation in my art. Many modern painters see the world as a jumble of random lines and shapes with no divine beauty or order, and their works reflect their viewpoint. Because I see God's peacefulness, serenity, and contentment, I work to capture those feelings on the canvas. My vision of God defines my vision of the world.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, Divine Beauty, Mountain Peaks

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• Islamic terrorism is the handiwork of people who've heeded, not hijacked, Islam. Or so says [Wafa] Sultan.

  Ilana Mercer

  Islamic, People, Terrorism

  "Wafa Wows The West (But Not Muslims And Media)". www.wnd.com. March 17, 2006.

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• Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

  Edward Kasner

  Math, Men, Law

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• As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

  Epicurus

  Character, Personality, Ifs

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so utterly lovely, how gloriously beautiful must he be who made them! The wisdom of the worker is revealed in his handiwork.

  Anthony of Padua

  Beautiful, Men, Animal

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• O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts ... You are one-half woman and one-half dream.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Dream, Women, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life

  Ravi Zacharias

  Journey, Accepting, Process

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• God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Garden, Perfection

  Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Weaving, Spinning, Regard

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wisdom, Like You, Made

  Norman Vincent Peale (2014). “Words I Have Lived”, p.19, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Oui, oui, he snapped with an obvious lack of awe. "Ding dong the demon's dead, now can we admire our delightful handiwork someplace where the ceiling is not about to cave in and your oh-so-handsome vampire is not about to become a dust bunny? (Levet)

  Alexandra Ivy

  Dust, Vampire, Ceilings

  Alexandra Ivy (2007). “Embrace the Darkness”, p.128, Zebra Books

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• We are His greatest handiwork even though we are still a work in progress.

  Gerrit W. Gong

  Progress, Work In Progress, Stills

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• Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times.

  Lawrence Reed

  Liberty, Welfare Reform, Care

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• Do you really think he untied you? .. He was just checking his kids handiwork.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Kids, Thinking

  Kelley Armstrong (2014). “Otherworld Nights: An Anthology”, p.109, Penguin

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• Violence against women is not random or anonymous. In West Virginia, 88 percent of sexual-assault victims already know their attacker. In my hometown, Alicia McCormick, an advocate for our domestic-violence shelter at the YWCA, was killed in her home by a man doing handiwork in her apartment complex. That one of my greatest advocates could fall victim to something she fought against her whole life was a tragedy that moved me to action.

  Shelley Moore Capito

  Fall, Home, Men

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• Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

  William Faulkner

  Looks, Aghast, Madness

  William Faulkner (1936). “Absalom, Absalom!”, Random House (NY)

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• He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience cancelled their disobedience. On the other hand, he bound the strong one and freed the weak and bestowed salvation on his handiwork by abolishing sin. For he is our compassionate and merciful Lord who loves mankind ... Had not man conquered man's adversary, the enemy would not have been conquered justly. Again, had it not been God who bestowed salvation we would not possess it securely.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Jesus, Strong, Father

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• The annual World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation will offer individual believers and communities a fitting opportunity to reaffirm their personal vocation to be stewards of creation, to thank God for the wonderful handiwork which he has entrusted to our care, and to implore his help for the protection of creation, as well as his pardon for the sins committed against the world in which we live.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Opportunity, Community

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• All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Division Of Labor, Different

  Immanuel Kant (2008). “Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

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• But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork'. Thus scientific research is a worshipful act, in that it reveals more of the wonders of God's creation.

  Arthur Leonard Schawlow

  Heaven, Atheism, God's Creation

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