Quotes about Creation

Since we were created in the image of God, we become like the God we imagine (image).

Without this playing with fantasy, no work has ever come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

God has delegated to us--to all of us--a profound responsibility for what is happening all around us and for the care and wise stewardship of all creation.

The ezer is a warrior. Like the man, she is also God's creative masterpiece--a work of genius and a marvel to behold--for she is fearfully and wonderfully made. The ezer never sheds her image-bearer identity. Not here. Not ever. God defines who she is and how she is to live in his world. That never changes.

By making us 'a little lower' than himself, God affixed the highest possible value on his daughters and his sons.

The God of justice, goodness, righteousness, and beauty created a world that is perfectly designed to reflect who he is.

When God looks at the earth--as though peering in a mirror--he wants to see himself reflected back. And the place he wants to see the clearest reflection is in his image bearers--both as individuals, but more importantly, in our relationships.

In Genesis God is multiplying the mystery of the Trinity in his image bearers by creating another individual who stands on level ground with the man and is completely different from, yet one with him. The oxygen hasn't grown thin after all. God is still vision casting--this time for male/female relationships.

The call to bear God's image is an invitation to get to know God deeply.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.