#creation

It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. ↗

— Ted Hughes

#each #feather #foot #hold #i

The coming together of a man and woman was a holy thing, after all. God had chosen this way of replenishing the earth. God did everything so elegantly, with such an exquisite attention to detail. She knew this from studying the flowers in the garden and watching the morning sky, all mauve and pink and orange. So beautiful. But God had looked at all this, His ideas, His wonderful sense of color and design put into action, and had said merely that it was good. Not great. Not fantastic. Just good. But when He had looked at man and woman together, He had said it was "very good". ↗

— Naomi Ragen

#man-and-woman #beauty

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#animal #badly #beyond #cousins #creation

We read about the name Jesus was given at his birth; Immanuel, meaning “God with us”. This God wasn’t content with dwelling in fiction, this God wasn’t content living with the seraphim and this God wasn’t content with bulls and goats anymore. This God wanted to dwell with you, with all of your mess, with all of your failures with all the dirtiness that is you; he wanted to sit with you. Here’s the amazing thing, God doesn’t care if you’re a catholic, a Lutheran, Post modern or Emergent; he wants to sit with you. ↗

— Ricky Maye

#earth #emergent #emerging #failure #faith

In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#creation #effectively #god #implicitly #involved

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture. ↗

— Leon Kass

#cloning #danger #example #immediate #into

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether. ↗

— Leon Kass

#about #altogether #children #controversy #important

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

— Edward Koch

#creation #killing #older #than

We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative. ↗

— Herb Kohl

#cannot #children #creation #distribution #disturbing

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#creation #does #i #i am #itself