1,364 Quotes About Creation

God created you for His higher purpose and for your better good

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: "Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him." And they cried out in a great voice: "He made us." CS Lewis

Language is the alchemy of transforming a thought into a word, and the word into a new reality.

Darwin caused controversy, not merely because his ideas contradicted Genesis, but because they fell foul of the way in which Genesis had been read by those influenced by the Enlightenment, for it was the Enlightenment that conceived of the human as almost exclusively rational and intellectual, and set the human at a distance from the animal.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.

...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.