#creation

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 #temptation #temptation

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking. ↗

— George MacDonald

#identity #individuality #creation

...I became aware of the world's tenderness, the profound beneficence of all that surrounded me, the blissful bond between me and all of creation, and I realized that the joy I sought in you was not only secreted within you, but breathed around me everywhere, in the speeding street sounds, in the hem of a comically lifted skirt, in the metallic yet tender drone of the wnid, in the autumn clouds bloated with rain. I realized that the world does not represent a struggle at all, or a predaceous sequence of chance events, but the shimmering bliss, beneficent trepidation, a gift bestowed upon us and unappreciatd. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#creation

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#indiviuality #creation

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#sanity #society #world #creation

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#creation #exhausted #fail #father #final

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#believe #condemn #creation #enough #eternal

I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive. ↗

— Thomas Nelson Page

#creation #earnest #face #fine #i

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed. ↗

— Mike Rounds

#continues #corps #decisions #drought #engineers

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind. ↗

— Abdus Salam

#creation #heritage #mankind #scientific #shared