Cosmology Quote by Terence E. Fretheim Download Open image ““Creation is not simply past; it is not just associated with "the beginning.”” — Terence E. Fretheim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cosmology Time
“Time and Space are not prior to creation, they are forms under which creation becomes thinkable.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Everything that’s created remains as it was before it was created. The artist fetches it down from the heavens as a finished thing. Eternity… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Time, you'll be pleased to know--and since one must start somewhere--was created in creation. The question What was there before creation? is meaningless. Time… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“Creation is either the result of an eternal, personal, and intelligent being or the accidental effect of eternal, impersonal, and mindless matter with unknowable… — Dan DeWitt Copy Share Image
“The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“The beginning of an end is sometimes just the start of something new. And once in a while, it's the genesis of something wonderful.” — Jaz Primo Copy Share Image
“The heart of the matter for Israel, therefore, is not subscription to an external code of conduct. It is a matter of faithfulness to… — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
“God works creatively with already existing realities to bring about newness. This understanding also entails the idea that the present (and future) is not… — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
“[C]reation" is not simply viewed as a matter of origination or a divine activity chronologically set only "in the beginning.” — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
“Sin and evil have their origins in the human will, not in God or in God's plan. At the same time, when sin and… — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
“God works from within a committed relationship with the world and not on the world from without in total freedom.” — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
“God is the God of the entire cosmos; God has to do with every creature, and every creature has to do with God, whether… — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
“At the least, the volume of material demonstrates the importance of worship to the narrator. Moreover, the movement in the book of Exodus as… — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
“Each created entity is in symbiotic relationship with every other and in such a way that any act reverberates out and affects the whole,… — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
“The life of God will forever include the life of the people of God as well as the life of the world more generally.” — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
“The human is not a fixed entity from the beginning but, along with the rest of creation, is in the process of becoming.” — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
“[T]he creativity of the human creature is such that genuinely new realities are regularly brought into being.” — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
“[T]hese people lived close to the ground, if you will, and the natural world filled their lives. Creation was a lived reality for them… — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get. — John Banville Copy Share Image
The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he was in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It is irrelevant whether or not there are other forms of life in the Galaxy or in other galaxies. The fact that we are… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and possibility: people,… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image