CREATION

Quote: If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler. Author: Alfonso X 1221-1284, Spanish King of Le=n and Castile

Quote: I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered,'' I am not He, but He made me.'' Author: St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

Quote: God's first creature, which was light. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

Quote: Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

Quote: Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all. Author: L. A. Coulson

Quote: when god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began Author: E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings 1894-1962, American Poet

Quote: Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production -- only to produce a race of bed-wetters! Author: Barbara Ehrenreich 1941-, American Author, Columnist

Quote: Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one. Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

Quote: Thou didst create the night, but I made the lamp. Thou didst create clay, but I made the cup. Thou didst create the deserts, mountains and forests, I produced the orchards, gardens and groves. It is I who made the glass out of stone, and it is I who turn a poison into an antidote. Author: Sir Muhammad Iqbal

Quote: There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner? Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author

Quote: It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors. Author: Samuel Levenson

Quote: In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor. Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author

Quote: God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days. Author: Christopher Morley 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet

Quote: This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. Author: Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727, British Scientist, Mathematician

Quote: Have We not made the earth as a cradle and the mountains as pegs? And We created you in pairs, and We appointed your sleep for a rest; and We appointed night for a garment, and We appointed day for a livelihood. And We have built above you seven strong ones, and We appointed a blazing lamp and have sent down out of the rain-clouds water cascading that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, and gardens luxuriant. Author: Qur'an Holy Book

Quote: We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

Quote: Man was created a little lower than the angels and has bin getting a little lower ever since. Author: Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885, American Humorist

Quote: People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates. Author: Thomas Szasz 1920-, American Psychiatrist

Quote: None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet. Author: Torquato Tasso 1544-1595, Italian Poet

Quote: What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of science is not able to make an oyster. Author: Jeremy Taylor 1613-1667, British Churchman, Writer

Quote: Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly -- a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

Quote: The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

Quote: Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of. Author: Geri Weitzman