Quotes about Creation
God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes.
— Max Lucado
In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
— Rowan Williams
God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
— Jerry Falwell
I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
— Dante Alighieri
The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come forth from that love.
— Henri Nouwen
The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Oh God, I thank You for having created me as I am. I thank You for the sense of fulfillment I sometimes have; that fulfillment is after all nothing but being filled with You. I promise You to strive my whole life long for beauty and harmony and also humility and true love, whispers of which I hear inside me during my best moments.
— Etty Hillesum
I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention.
— Eugene Peterson
The core message of the gospel is that God invades us with new life, but the setting for this is most often in the ordinariness of our lives. The new life takes place in the place and person of our present. It is not a means by which God solves problems. God creates new life. He is not a problem solver but a person creator.
— Eugene Peterson
The psalmist's and the Christian's waiting and watching—that is, hoping—is based on the conviction that God is actively involved in his creation and vigorously at work in redemption.
— Eugene Peterson