Quotes about Creation

These laws may have originally been decreed by God, but it appears that he has since left the universe to evolve according to them and does not now intervene in it.

What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

People have always wanted answers to the big questions. Where did we come from? How did the universe begin? What is the meaning and design behind it all? Is there anyone out there? The creation accounts of the past now seem less relevant and credible. They have been replaced by a variety of what can only be called superstitions, ranging from New Age to Star Trek. But real science can be far stranger than science fiction, and much more satisfying.

After all, it is hard to think of a more important, or fundamental, mystery than what, or who, created and controls the universe.

Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?

In an unchanging universe a beginning in time is something that has to be imposed by some being outside the universe;

It means the universe itself, in all its mind-boggling vastness and complexity, could simply have popped into existence without violating the known laws of nature.

Aristotle, and most of the other Greek philosophers, on the other hand, did not like the idea of a creation because it smacked too much of divine intervention.

Good-hearted laughter is a tribute to the happy God, who created laughter and delights to enter into it with us.

We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.

A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.