| Quotation 1 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty." |
| Albert Einstein |
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| Quotation 2 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude." |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Quotation 3 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation." |
| Maya Angelou |
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| Quotation 4 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form." |
| William Ralph Inge |
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| Quotation 5 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation." |
| Ann Druyan |
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| Quotation 6 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation." |
| Neale Donald Walsch |
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| Quotation 7 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation." |
| Edmund Burke |
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| Quotation 8 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer." |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 9 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within." |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 10 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"There are enough evidences of supreme skill in the structure of the human hand alone to prove the existence, intelligence and benevolence of God in the face of all the sophistry of infidelity." |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 11 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"We have accounts of the deification of men in pagan mythology. But I do not remember any account of a god becoming a man, to help man. Whoever heard of Jupiter or Mars or Minerva coming down and attempting to bear the burdens of men? The gods were willing" |
| A.C. Dixon |
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| Quotation 12 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself" |
| A.C. Dixon |
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| Quotation 13 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 14 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him." |
| Gustave Flaubert |
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| Quotation 15 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point." |
| Saint Augustine |
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| Quotation 16 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom." |
| Paramahansa Yogananda |
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| Quotation 17 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need." |
| Gaston Bachelard |
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| Quotation 18 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature." |
| Albert Pike |
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| Quotation 19 : | BIRTH OF MAN
"Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will." |
| Georg C. Lichtenberg |
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| Quotation 20 : | CREATION
"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation." |
| Edmund Burke |
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| Quotation 21 : | CREATION
"For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 22 : | CREATION
"This desire for heart purity is a creation of the Holy Spirit at work in the heart." |
| Duncan Campbell |
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| Quotation 23 : | CREATION
"Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur." |
| Henry Miller |
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| Quotation 24 : | CREATION
"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything." |
| Nikola Tesla |
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| Quotation 25 : | CREATION
"Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation." |
| Rabindranath Tagore |
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| Quotation 26 : | CREATION
"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words." |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
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| Quotation 27 : | CREATION
"Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness." |
| Stephen Fry |
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| Quotation 28 : | CREATION
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will." |
| George Bernard Shaw |
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| Quotation 29 : | CREATION
"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude." |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Quotation 30 : | CREATION
"A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation." |
| Ann Druyan |
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| Quotation 31 : | CREATION
"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation." |
| Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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| Quotation 32 : | CREATION
"There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords." |
| John Muir |
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| Quotation 33 : | CREATION
"Liberals creation myth is Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, which is one notch above Scientology in scientific rigor." |
| Ann Coulter |
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| Quotation 34 : | CREATION
"All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together." |
| Morihei Ueshiba |
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| Quotation 35 : | CREATION
"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation." |
| Victor Hugo |
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| Quotation 36 : | CREATION
"God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 37 : | CREATION
"God built into the creation a variety of cultural spheres, such as the family, economics, politics, art, and intellectual inquiry. Each of these spheres has its own proper "business" and needs its own unique pattern of authority. When we confuse spheres," |
| Abraham Kuyper |
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| Quotation 38 : | CREATION
"Protestantism developed its sense of identity primarily in response to external threats and criticisms rather than as a result of shared beliefs. In one sense, the idea of "Protestantism" can be seen as the creation of its opponents rather than of its sup" |
| Alister McGrath |
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| Quotation 39 : | CREATION
"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point." |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 40 : | CREATION
"In the destiny of every moral being there is an object more worthy of God than happiness. It is character. And the grand aim of man's creation is the development of a grand character, and grand character is, by its very nature, the product of probationary" |
| Austin Phelps |
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| Quotation 41 : | CREATION
"Just because creation gives God great delight, we cannot say that He is worshipping it; rather, He is worshipping Himself as He sees His goodness bringing such blessing to people that they give their heartfelt thanks and praise to Him for the benefits He" |
| Daniel Fuller |
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| Quotation 42 : | CREATION
"A man with no sense of religious duty is he whom the Scriptures describe in such terse but terrific language, as living "without God in the world." Such a man is out of his proper being, out of the circle of all his duties, out of the circle of all his ha" |
| Daniel Webster |
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| Quotation 43 : | CREATION
"To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to the Creator. God indicts those who worship the creation instead of its Creator (Rom 1:18-23); and warns of the co" |
| Dave Hunt |
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| Quotation 44 : | CREATION
"The Spiritual Life is the gift of the Living Spirit. The spiritual man is no mere development of the Natural man. He is a New Creation born from Above." |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 45 : | CREATION
"God's providence is His constant care for and His absolute rule over all His creation for His own glory and the good of His people." |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 46 : | CREATION
"God made all of His creation to give. He made the sun, the moon, the stars, the clouds, the earth, the plants to give. He also designed His supreme creation, man, to give. But fallen man is the most reluctant giver in all of God's creation." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 47 : | CREATION
"If the biblical creation account is in any degree unreliable, the rest of Scripture stands on a shaky foundation." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 48 : | CREATION
"The amazing excellence revealed in the creative work of God is forfeited to a very large degree if we abandon the days of creation in favor of an ages-long evolutionary process." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 49 : | CREATION
"To some measure even unbelievers benefit from God's grace. Theologians call that "common grace" because it is common to all mankind. Common grace is God's continual care for all creation, providing for His creatures' needs. Through common grace God restra" |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 50 : | CREATION
"The goal of preaching is the glory of God reflected in the glad submission of his creation." |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 51 : | CREATION
"The impulse to create the world was not from weakness, as though God were lacking in some perfection which creation could supply." |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 52 : | CREATION
"We have no strict demonstration of anything, except mathematical truths, but by metaphysics. We can have no proof that is properly demonstrative, of any one position relating to the being and nature of God, his creation of the world, the dependence of all" |
| Jonathan Edwards |
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| Quotation 53 : | CREATION
"We want people to understand that we're not just an organization about creation and evolution; we're not just talking about the age of the Earth and fossils -- of course we talk about those things. But we're Christians -- and as Christians, we wanted to s" |
| Ken Ham |
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| Quotation 54 : | CREATION
"The creation message has matured over the past three decades, as the discernment and understanding of creationist leaders has matured. More and more, the emphasis is on the foundational issue: compromise of Genesis ultimately undermines the gospel itself." |
| Ken Ham |
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| Quotation 55 : | CREATION
"God has set the type of marriage everywhere throughout the creation. Every creature seeks its perfection in another. The very heavens and earth picture it to us." |
| Martin Luther |
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| Quotation 56 : | CREATION
"We go back to creation and we see that man is made in the image and in the likeness of God (Genesis 1:26, 27), not in the sense that God has a body, but in terms of our nature. You are called to be living images that reflect and communicate the character" |
| R.C. Sproul |
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| Quotation 57 : | CREATION
"God can do all He wills (and does) but need not do all He can (and does not). That is to say, God's infinite power is manifested in the works of creation, but isn't exhausted by them. God could have created more than He has, if He so pleased. What God has" |
| Sam Storms |
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| Quotation 58 : | CREATION
"God has sovereignly pulled back the curtain on His glory. He has disclosed Himself on the platform of both creation and redemption that we might stand awestruck in His presence, beholding the sweet symmetry of His attributes, pondering the unfathomable de" |
| Sam Storms |
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| Quotation 59 : | CREATION
"Creation in its totality exists as a means to the fulfillment of some specific purpose that terminates on and for the sake of Jesus Christ." |
| Sam Storms |
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| Quotation 60 : | CREATION
"The invisible is made visible via creation or nature. Divine wisdom, power, eternity and goodness, for example, are not in themselves visible, but their reality is undeniably affirmed and apprehended by the effects they produce in nature. That there is a" |
| Sam Storms |
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| Quotation 61 : | CREATION OF MAN
"When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first moulded the Earth into the form of a mighty ball so that it might be of like form on every side … And," |
| — Ovid |
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| Quotation 62 : | CREATION OF MAN
"The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation." |
| — Sigmund Freud |
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| Quotation 63 : | CREATION OF MAN
"We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man." |
| — Sam Harris |
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| Quotation 64 : | CREATION OF MAN
"It is only the infinite mercy and love of God that has prevented us from tearing ourselves to pieces and destroying His entire creation long ago. People seem to think that it is in some way a proof that no merciful God exists, if we have so many wars. On" |
| — Thomas Merton |
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| Quotation 65 : | CREATION OF MAN
"Coyote, who is the creator of all of us, was sitting on his cloud the day after he created Indians. Now, he liked the Indians, liked what they were doing. This is good, he kept saying to himself. But he was bored. He thought and thought about what he shou" |
| — Sherman Alexie |
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| Quotation 66 : | CREATION OF MAN
"Woman is God’s supreme creation. Only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after the waters had been divided from the land, after vegetation and animal life had been created, and after man had been placed on th" |
| — Gordon B. Hinckley |
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| Quotation 67 : | CREATION OF MAN
"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability." |
| — Oscar Wilde |
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| Quotation 68 : | CREATION OF MAN
"Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powe" |
| — Henry Miller |
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| Quotation 69 : | CREATION OF MAN
"Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important," |
| — Hermann Hesse |
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| Quotation 70 : | CREATION OF MAN
"It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind." |
| — Thích Nhất Hạnh |
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| Quotation 71 : | CREATION OF MAN
"Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philos" |
| — John Steinbeck |
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| Quotation 72 : | CREATION OF MAN
"Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed."" |
| — Christopher Pike |
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| Quotation 73 : | CREATION OF MAN
"Woman’s role in creation should be parallel to her role in life. I don’t mean the good earth. I mean the bad earth too, the demon, the instincts, the storms of nature. Tragedies, conflicts, mysteries are personal. Man fabricated a detachment which became" |
| — Anaïs Nin |
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