100+ Creation Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Cædmon (1832). “Cædmon's metrical paraphrase of parts of the holy Scriptures, in Anglo-Sax., with an Engl. tr., notes and index by B. Thorpe”, p.8

topic: Light, Firsts, Creation

Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.

- Caitlin Thomas

topic: Eye, Insanity, Creation

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

- Carl Jung

topic: Historical, Conservative, Creation

This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

- Carl Jung

topic: Dream, Actors, Creation, Stage Managers

The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]

- Carl Sagan

topic: Bangs, Needs, Creation, Creation Myths, Human Needs

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

- Carlos Fuentes

topic: Tradition, Creation

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

- Cecil B. DeMille

topic: Drug, Creation

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

- Cecil Taylor

topic: Goal, Musical, Creation

A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

- Cesare Pavese

topic: Dream, Knowing, Creation

We started YouTube to democratize video distribution. Now, we are democratizing video creation,

- Chad Hurley

topic: Video, Creation, Youtube

The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Gathering, Crowds, Creation, Gathering Places

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

- Charles Darwin

topic: Done, Dogma, Creation, Good Service

The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.

- Charles Kettering

topic: Keys, Prosperity, Creation, Economic Prosperity

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

- Charles Lyell

source: Sir Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes (1830). “Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation”, p.4

topic: Men, Creation, Geology, Creation Of Man

It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation.

- Christiaan Huygens

source: Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.7

topic: Design, Scripture, Creation

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

topic: Logic, Language, Creation

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

- Christina Stead

topic: Passion, Optimistic, Creation

Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.

- Christmas Humphreys

source: Christmas Humphreys (2012). “Exploring Buddhism”, p.179, Routledge

topic: Meditation, Use, Creation

I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.

- Chuck Close

topic: Interesting, Problem, Creation

I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life.

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Creation, Motion Pictures, Aspect

Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.

- Coventry Patmore

topic: Firsts, Creation, Fountain, Subsistence

The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God.

- Cyril of Jerusalem

topic: Creation, Contemplation

From the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and ... the fulfilling of those desires is the fulfilling of creation.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Profound, Desire, Creation

Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Melting Pot, Chaos, Creation, Elementals

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

- Dallas Willard

topic: Play, Creation, Values

The smell of frustration cannot compete with the stench of non-creation

- Daniel Lee

topic: Frustration, Smell, Creation

God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that appears within being; beauty is the showing of what is; God looked upon what he had wrought and saw that it was good.

- David Bentley Hart

source: David Bentley Hart (2004). “The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth”, p.18, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

topic: Saws, Firsts, Creation

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

- David Eagleman

topic: Fleeing, Creation, Ends

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

- David Icke

topic: Consciousness, Infinite, Creation, Infinite Consciousness

As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

- David Korten

topic: People, Creation, Economy, Inefficiency

Self-creation is the highest art.

- David Zindell

topic: Art, Self, Creation

Taking control of your own creation, you can ultimately affect your future.

- Dee Wallace

source: FaceBook post by Dee Wallace from Jan 22, 2014

topic: Creation, Your Future, Our Future

This is our grace: To be a note In the exact chord that animates creation.

- Deena Metzger

topic: Grace, Creation, Notes

Without creation, what are we but stalled in life?

- Dhani Jones

topic: Creation

My best creation is my children.

- Diane von Furstenberg

topic: Children, My Children, Creation

Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay.

- Dwight Schultz

topic: Creation, Genes

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

- E. B. White

topic: Distraction, Creation

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Firsts, Steps, Creation

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

- Earle Brown

topic: Political, Creation, Used, Non Political

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

- Ed Koch

topic: Art, Killing, Creation, Lateral Thinking, Related To Creativity

Christians are not patched-up sinners, they are new creations.

- Edwin Louis Cole

topic: Christian, Creation, Sinner

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

- Eldridge Cleaver

source: "'He was a symbol': Eldridge Cleaver dies at 62". www.cnn.com. May 1, 1998.

topic: Rights, Gone, Creation

The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

- Eliphas Levi

source: Eliphas Levi (2015). “Transcendental Magic”, p.176, Eliphas Levi

topic: Men, Perfect, Creation, Creation Of Man

When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.

- Eliphas Levi

topic: Cute, Infinite, Creation

There cannot be creation without a lot of energy.

- Emil Nolde

topic: Creativity, Energy, Creation

Reality is a creation of our excesses.

- Emile M. Cioran

topic: Reality, Excess, Creation

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

- Emile Zola

topic: Art, Creation, Art Is

Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Inspirational Life, Earth, Creation

We are human in expression, but divine in creation and limitless in potentiality.

- Eric Butterworth

source: Eric Butterworth (2001). “The Power Within”, p.19, James Clarke & Co.

topic: Expression, Limitless, Creation

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Art, Creation, Capacity, Premises

Ideas are the roots of creation.

- Ernest Dimnet

source: "The Power of Thought". Published by Prima, p. 119, 1998.

topic: Ideas, Roots, Creation

Ideas are the root of creation.

- Ernest Dimnet

source: "The Power of Thought". Published by Prima, p. 119, 1998.

topic: Ideas, Roots, Creation

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

- Ernest Dimnet

source: "The Art of Thinking". Book by Ernest Dimnet, p. 61, 1928.

topic: Thinking, Creation, Habit, Methodical

If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period, with the possible exception of The Creation.

- Ernest Newman

topic: Musical, Costumes, Creation

You are not here to prove worthiness. You are here to extend the creation, creator, creating that you are.

- Esther Hicks

topic: Self Esteem, Creating, Creation

If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

- Eugene H. Peterson

topic: Ordinary, Creation, Sabbath, Attentiveness

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

- Eugenio Montale

topic: Soul, Creation, Outstanding, Great Lyric, Reborn

A photo is a creation.

- Eva Herzigova

topic: Creation

I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.

- Famke Janssen

topic: Dark, Darkness, Creation

We don't only invent God; we also discover God. Looking at the creation, we strive to deduce the nature of the creator. We take familiar images of power and expand them until they become big enough to encompass the divine.

- Forrest Church

topic: Creation, Enough, Strive

The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything in our lives and churches can be explained apart from the work and presence of the Spirit of God.

- Francis Chan

topic: Church, Spirit, Creation

I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation

- Francis Collins

topic: Thinking, Appreciate, Creation

The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful.

- Francis Collins

source: "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief". Book by Francis Collins, 2006.

topic: Beautiful, Majestic, Creation, Intricate

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

topic: Light, Creation, Comets, Solar System

The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation.

- Fred Hoyle

source: Fred Hoyle (1983). “The Intelligent Universe”

topic: Bangs, Creation, Bigs

Most nations have some type of creation story.

- Fred Van Lente

topic: Stories, Creation, Type, Creation Stories

The Void is a living void ... pulsating in endless rhythms of creation and destruction. The great Void does not exist as Void, it embraces all Being/non-Being

- Frederick Franck

topic: Doe, Void, Creation, Creation And Destruction

Creation and creativity are inextricably linked.

- Freeman Patterson

topic: Creativity, Creation

As thou hast created me out of mingled air and glitter, I thank thee for it. [Ger., Wie aus Duft und Glanz gemischt Du mich schufst, dir dank ich's heut.]

- Friedrich Ruckert

topic: Air, Glitter, Creation, Dank

The challenge to each human is creation. Will you create with reverence, or with neglect?

- Gary Zukav

topic: Challenges, Creation, Neglect

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

- George Canning

source: 'The Progress of Man' (1799) l. 55

topic: Men, Mars, Creation

Ultimately the love can become so big that we can love the whole of creation instead of 'I love this but I don't like that.'

- George Harrison

topic: Creation, Bigs

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

- George Steiner

topic: Book, Privilege, Creation

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Creation, Dictation

Is not all creation a transgression?

- Gilbert Simondon

topic: Creation, Transgression

Time, you'll be pleased to know--and since one must start somewhere--was created in creation. The question What was there before creation? is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.

- Glen Duncan

topic: Time, Creation, Property

Mitt Romney has a proven job creation record as governor and in the private sector.

- Gordon Smith

topic: Jobs, Records, Creation, Job Creation

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

- Gore Vidal

topic: Art, Love Is, Creation

You are the crown of creation, and you've got no place to go.

- Grace Slick

topic: Crowns, Creation

Liberation from every form of exploitation, the possibility of a more human and dignified life, the creation of a new humankind - all pass through this struggle.

- Gustavo Gutiérrez

source: Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

topic: Struggle, Creation, Possibility

Whoever doesn't worship God by choice will worship the creation by necessity.

- Habib Umar bin Hafiz

topic: Choices, Worship, Creation

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

- Haley Barbour

topic: Jobs, House, Creation, Job Creation

There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.

- Hans Blix

source: "Newsview: U.S. reports no weapons in Iraq". Boston Globe, September 18, 2004.

topic: Reality, Ordinary, Creation

Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.

- Harry Shearer

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Comedy, Creation, Faster

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

- Harvey Keitel

topic: Imagination, Stories, Creation

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

- Hayao Miyazaki

source: "The Cat Returns". Animation, Adventure, Comedy, 2002.

topic: Heart, Soul, Creation

Creation begins with vision.

- Henri Matisse

topic: Vision, Creation

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

- Henry Fielding

topic: Taxation, Fool, Creation

There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.

- Henry Fielding

topic: Moving, Might, Creation, Meditating

Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.

- Henry M. Morris

source: Dr. Henry M. Morris (1974). “Scientific Creationism”, p.5, New Leaf Publishing Group

topic: Past, Scientific Method, Creation, Inaccessible

It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.

- Henry M. Morris

source: Dr. Henry M. Morris (1974). “Scientific Creationism”, p.5, New Leaf Publishing Group

topic: Doe, Impossible, Creation

Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown...

- Henry Miller

topic: Night, Earth, Creation

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Mother, Different, Creation

Game creation keeps on expanding, just like the Universe. That is why I keep making games

- Hideo Kojima

topic: Games, Creation, Expanding

All of creation is a song of praise to God.

- Hildegard of Bingen

topic: Song, Praise, Creation, Praises To God

With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.

- Hildegard of Bingen

topic: Life, Helping, Creation

The People of the Sunnah are the most knowledgeable of mankind concerning the truth, and the most merciful of the creation towards the rest of creation.

- Ibn Taymiyyah

topic: People, Creation, Sunnah

Whoever considers the Attributes of Allaah to be like the attributes of the creation, such that the Istawaa of Allaah is like the ascending of the creation, or His Descending (Nuzool) is like the descending of the creation or other than that, then he is a deviated innovator.

- Ibn Taymiyyah

topic: Ascending, Creation, Attributes

Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.

- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

source: "The Authorised Daily Prayer Book" by Immanuel Jakobovits, Centenary Edition, (p. 17), 1990.

topic: Men, Covenant, Creation

The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.

- Irenaeus of Lyons

topic: Steps, Creation, Contemplation

So, here we are - all part of this great hologram called Creation, which is everybody else's SELF.It's all a cosmic play, and there is nothing but you!

- Itzhak Bentov

topic: Self, Play, Creation, Holograms

It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, "Let us make man". It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, "Let us save man".

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Men, Creation, Said, Trinity

If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations.

- J. M. Coetzee

topic: Shells, Creation, Let Me

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

- Jacob Bronowski

topic: Art, Creation, Art Is

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.

- Jacques Ellul

topic: Prayer, Together, Creation

A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.

- James Galanos

topic: Years, Creation, Output

We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

- James Jeans

source: The Mysterious Universe ch. 5 (1930)

topic: God, Creation, Possibility

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

- James Joyce

topic: Art, Invisible, Creation, Fingernails, Refining

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

- James Joyce

source: James Joyce (2013). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.134, Courier Corporation

topic: Beautiful, Artist, Creation

I study theology in the works of creation and find in it new reasons for adoring the creator.

- Jan Potocki

source: Jan Potocki (2006). “The Manuscript Found in Saragossa”, p.495, Penguin UK

topic: Study, Reason, Creation

Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even out little corner of it.

- Janet Lee Carey

topic: Glimpse, Littles, Creation

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

- Jay Samit

source: Twitter post from Sep 25, 2015

topic: Successful, Innovation, Creation

There is no peace more wonderful than the peace we enjoy when faith shows us God in all created things.

- Jean-Pierre de Caussade

source: Jean-Pierre De Caussade (2012). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.40, Image

topic: Wonderful, Creation, Enjoy

A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.

- Jeffrey Katzenberg

topic: Creation, Distribution, Company, Dreamworks

Web-site creation isn't something you learn once and then check off on your to do list.

- Jeffrey Veen

source: Jeffrey Veen (1997). “Hot Wired Style: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites”, Wired Books

topic: Lists, Consciousness, Creation

Your part in the co-creation process to attract more money in your life is to act on the ideas that are coming to you.

- Joe Vitale

topic: Ideas, Life Is, Creation

I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.

- Joel Silver

topic: Sports, Proud, Creation

My purpose is to acknowledge the wonder of being part of Creation. Though I myself don't create anything, I make from what has been created.

- Joel-Peter Witkin

topic: Purpose, Wonder, Creation

Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation...

- Johannes Kepler

topic: Mind, Creation, Geometry

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

- Johannes Tauler

topic: Letting Go, Sin, Creation

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.

- John B. S. Haldane

topic: Stars, Study, Creation, Fondness, Beetles

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

- John Bruton

topic: Europe, Half, Creation

Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.

- John Edensor Littlewood

topic: Would Be, Creation, Mathematics

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

- John Ford

topic: Looks, Tailors, Creation

My reputation is a media creation.

- John Lydon

topic: Media, Reputation, Creation

God creates the world anew in each moment.

- John of Ruysbroeck

topic: World, Moments, Creation

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

- John Polkinghorne

topic: Church, Christ, Creation, Eastern, Divine Nature

The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Bible, World, Creation, Creation Of The World

The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.

- John Ray

source: John Ray (1848). “The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the Philosophical Letters Published by Dr. Derham, and Original Letters of John Ray, in the Collection of the British Museum”, p.486

topic: Creation

There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.

- John Ruskin

topic: Mean, Christ, Creation

We are the measure of all things. And the beauty of our creation, of our art is proportional to the beauty of ourselves of our souls.

- Jonas Mekas

topic: Art, Soul, Creation

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

- Jonathan Sacks

topic: Perfect, Wealth, Creation, Wealth Creation, Market Economy

The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Views, Atheism, Creation

All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all.

- Joseph Dalton Hooker

topic: Development, Evolution, Creation

Jehovah created the earth and therefore it is his by right of creation.

- Joseph Franklin Rutherford

source: Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1928). “Reconciliation: a plain statement of the gracious provision Jehovah has made to bring all men into full harmony with Himself that the obedient ones may have everlasting life on earth in contentment and complete happiness”

topic: Earth, Jehovah, Creation

God is not identified with the world, for he made it; but God is not separate from His world, either. For He made it.

- Joseph Sittler

source: Joseph Sittler (1998). “The Structure of Christian Ethics”, p.4, Westminster John Knox Press

topic: World, Creation, Made

Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.

- Joyce Appleby

topic: Wealth, Creation, Capitalist, Wealth Creation

We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.

- Julia Cameron

topic: Creativity, Creative, Creation

Sarah Palin's real quality is that she is her own best creation.