Quotes about Creation

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what he thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what his painting isn't, until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is, you're off and running.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works.

There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

Every April, God rewrites the Book of Genesis.

It is only as a unity in diversity that the Christian community will become an inviting community in a society which is otherwise pretty uniform. Creation is motley and diverse, and the new creation even more so.

We are accustomed to believe that our world was created by God speaking the Word; but I ask, may it not rather be that he wrote it, wrote a Word so long we have yet to come to the end of it? May it not be that God continually writes the world, the world and all that is in it?

Hand in hand they stroke her womb, watching for it to flicker and blossom. p. 3

Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.