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Creation Quotes by Annie Dillard
- We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we…
- We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not…
- The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
- Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things of creation. By…
- Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the…
- We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.
- After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down…
More Creation Quotes
- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation. — Michele Bachmann
- It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands… — Michele Bachmann
- A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou
- The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. — James A. Baldwin
- Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times… — Ansel Adams
- Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. — Stefan Banach
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an… — Gary Bauer
- Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However,… — Bob Beauprez
- President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the… — Bob Beauprez