563 quotes found
“It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer)”
“...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.”
“The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled a...”
“We learn that there are in creation, Beings - perhaps very numerous - both good and evil.”
“Good and evil are (only) labels that manthrough religion and philosophycreated to explain and judge the Universes natural cycle of creation and destruction. Creation was deemed good and destruction...”
“First there wasn't, then there was. Before God no one was.”
“In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land...”
“The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.”
“If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist.”
“Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty.And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in...”
“God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.”
“What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehe...”
“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 ...”
“Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?""Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.”
“God likes to make people. Great people out of common people, strong people out of week people, famous people out of the unknown people, good people are bad people. God likes to make people. That's ...”
“I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.”
“Pictures put you in front of a reality that most of the times you don't want to see, don't want to know about, don't want to get involved.”
“As truly as God by His power oncecreated, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain.”
“You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For me, that dramatic action takes precedence over all other considerations. The pure pl...”
“Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.”
