"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
— Oscar Wilde

"I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."
— Mark Twain

""In a time of destruction, create something.""
— Maxine Hong Kingston

"A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it to be God."
— Sidney Sheldon

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
— Stephen W. Hawking

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
-Genesis 1:1"
— Various

"My first game was a shoot 'em up, but when I designed it I found that creating the world I was going to blow up was more interesting than blowing it up – that's where I came to Sim City."
— Wil Wright

"But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it."
— T.C. Boyle

"Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies. (from "Loving Your Enemies")"
— Martin Luther King Jr. (A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.)

"They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?"
— Jeanette Winterson

"I guess I've got to keep creating or I'll just die."
— Jarrod - "Eagle vs. Shark"

"It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt"
— Alan Wilson Watts (Zen and the Beat Way)

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The Geography of bliss

"The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation."
-Freud"
— Freud

"It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"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."
— J.B.S. Haldane

"Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice."
— John Calvin

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Dougls Adams

"He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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— Irving Stone (The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo)

"First there wasn't, then there was. Before God no one was."
— Anita Amirrezvani (The Blood of Flowers: A Novel)

"In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)"
— Albert Einstein

"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 should make next in the world. But he couldn't think of anything so he decided to clip his toenails. ... He looked around and around his cloud for somewhere to throw away his clippings. But he couldn't find anywhere and he got mad. He started jumping up and down because he was so mad. Then he accidentally dropped his toenail clippings over the side of the cloud and they fell to the earth. They clippings burrowed into teh ground like seeds and grew up to be white man. Coyote, he looked down at his newest creation and said, "Oh, shit.""
— Sherman Alexie (The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven)

"If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist."
— Patricia Briggs (Raven's Strike)

"Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat -- was, literally, talked into life."
— Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay)

"Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it, took off its studded collar, and slit its throat."
— Salvador Plascencia (The People of Paper)

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits one-self, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
— J.W. von Goethe

"...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation."
— E.J.H. Corner

"The best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is the imagination."
— Homer W. Smith, evolutionist

"Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them"
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Creation and Fall / Temptation: Two Biblical Studies)

"Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free"
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Creation and Fall / Temptation: Two Biblical Studies)

"It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ"
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Creation and Fall / Temptation: Two Biblical Studies)

"The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world "
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Creation and Fall / Temptation: Two Biblical Studies)

"The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it asks for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world "
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Creation and Fall / Temptation: Two Biblical Studies)

"I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark and gives them new meanings."
— Gloria Anzaldúa (Interviews/Entrevistas)

"A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing."
— Salman Rushdie (Haroun and the Sea of Stories)

"The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth."
— Ezra Pound

"There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created."
— Meister Eckhart

"There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it."
— N. Scott Momaday (House Made of Dawn)

"In the white man's world, language, too -- and the way which the white man thinks of it--has undergone a process of change. The white man takes such things as words and literatures for granted, as indeed he must, for nothing in his world is so commonplace. On every side of him there are words by the millions, an unending succession of pamphlets and papers, letters and books, bills and bulletins, commentaries and conversations. He has diluted and multiplied the Word, and words have begun to close in on him. He is sated and insensitive; his regard for language -- for the Word itself -- as an instrument of creation has diminished nearly to the point of no return. It may be that he will perish by the Word."
— N. Scott Momaday (House Made of Dawn)

"“Understand that all thoughts create — and the more emotion that is present at the time that a thought is set in motion, the faster the creation will be received — and as frequent thought is given in any direction, without the hindrance of negative thought, there is certain creation, eventually.”"
— Abraham as told by Esther Hicks

"We live in the world we made up."
— Jim Paul (Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon)

"He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God."
— N Scott Momaday (Ancient Child)

"There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past."
— Carlos Fuentes (Myself with Others: Selected Essays)

"Try to learn why God created; for that is true knowledge. But do not try to learn how He created; or why He did so comparatively recently, for that does not come within the compass of your intellect."
— St. Maximos the Confessor

"…the whole creation, though as creatures it is infinitely far removed from God, is still God’s handiwork and related to him. The world is not an independent entity on a par with, and antithetically related to, God. It is not a second God, but totally God’s work, both in its “isness” and its “whatness”. From the very beginning it was designed to reveal God. The entire people of Israel were designed to make known God’s excellencies in its laws and institutions, its offices and ministries, its character and mores. And Christ’s humanity was equipped by the Holy Spirit to make known to people the Father and his name. The circle of the apostles, with its diversity of education, preparation, gifts, and calling, was designated to tell the world the “mighty acts of God”."
— Herman Bavinck