Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
God's first creature, which was light.
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.
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered,'' I am not He, but He made me.''
If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.
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!
In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
Man was created a little lower than the angels and has bin getting a little lower ever since.
None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
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.
Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
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?
This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
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.
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.