Creation of the World Quotes

We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer ago than six thousand years the world did not exist

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.

Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

God has created the world in play, as it were.

In six days the Lord created the heavens and the earth and all the wonders therein. There are some of us who feel that He might have taken just a little more time.

The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute

Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for a better ordering of the universe.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity or entities in the distant past. But I can tell you that in the millennia we elves have studied nature, we have never witnessed an instance where the rules that govern the world have been broken. That is, we have never seen a miracle. Many events have defied our ability to explain, but we are convinced that we failed because we are still woefully ignorant about the universe and not because a deity altered the workings of nature.

Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.

...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.

To think that before the hills were formed, or the channels of the sea were scooped out, God loved me; that from everlasting to everlasting His mercy is upon His people. Is not that a consolation?

The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.

Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

It would be a sign of great simplicity to think that the world was created in six days, or indeed at all in time; [...] Time is a thing posterior to the world. Therefore it would be correctly said that the world was not created in time, but that time had its existence in consequence of the world. For it is the motion of the heaven that has displayed the nature of time.

God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality.

The world, our world, has existed since night of time, yet every day we must recreate it. If we did not walk upon the earth, it would not exist.