Quotes about creator

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1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)
Context: But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes? Do we not see a fair creation prepared to receive us the instant we are born — a world furnished to our hands, that cost us nothing? Is it we that light up the sun, that pour down the rain, and fill the earth with abundance? Whether we sleep or wake, the vast machinery of the universe still goes on. Are these things, and the blessings they indicate in future, nothing to us? Can our gross feelings be excited by no other subjects than tragedy and suicide? Or is the gloomy pride of man become so intolerable, that nothing can flatter it but a sacrifice of the Creator?

Breakfast of Champions (1973)
Context: I was on par with the Creator of the Universe there in the dark in the cocktail lounge. I shrunk the Universe to a ball exactly one light-year in diameter. I had it explode. I had it disperse itself again.
Ask me a question, any question. How old is the Universe? It is one half-second old, but the half-second has lasted one quintillion years so far. Who created it? Nobody created it. It has always been here.
What is time? It is a serpent which eats its tail, like this:
This is the snake which uncoiled itself long enough to offer Eve the apple, which looked like this:
What was the apple which Eve and Adam ate? It was the Creator of the Universe.
And so on.
Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

As quoted in A life of Linnaeus https://archive.org/stream/lifeoflinnaeus00brigiala#page/122/mode/2up/search/blessed (1858), by J. Van Voorst & Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, London. p. 123.: I render thanks to the Almighty, who has ordered my lot so that I live at this day; and live, too, happier than the King of Persia. I think myself thus blessed because in this academic garden I am principal. This is my Rhodus, or, rather, my Elysium; here I enjoy the spoils of the East and the West, and, if I mistake not, that which far excels in beauty the garments of the Babylonians and the porcelain of China. Here I behold myself the might and wisdom of the Great Creator, in the works by which He reveals Himself, and show them unto others."
Context: I thank Providence who has guided my destinies, that I now live; nay, that I live happier than a king of Persia. You know, fathers and fellow-citizens, that I am wholly occupied with this academical garden; that it is my Rhodus, or rather my Elysium. There I possess all the spoils of the east and the west which I wished for; and which, in my belief, are far more precious than the silken garments of the Babylonians, and the porcelain vases of the Chinese. There I receive and convey instruction. There I admire the wisdom of the Creator, which manifests itself in so many various modes, and demonstrate it to others.

In Is the Qur'an God's Word? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RuQMD4yYWg

A Means for Furthering Peace (1905)

1930s, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)

Source: Snow Crash

An American Prayer (1978)
Context: O great creator of being
grant us one more hour to
perform our art
and perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine
& dying
We live, we die
and death not ends it

Source: A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Source: Showdown

Source: (January 2004), Chapter 1: The Hook. p. 6

Source: I Capture the Castle

Source: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Two Rivers saying
(15 October 1993)
Source: The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set

Variant: Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge

Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Source: Wizard's First Rule

Source: The Name of the Rose

1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
Source: The Works Of John Adams, Second President Of The United States
Context: Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers. Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, of the people; and if the cause, the interest, and trust, is insidiously betrayed, or wantonly trifled away, the people have a right to revoke the authority that they themselves have deputed, and to constitute other and better agents, attorneys and trustees.

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Source: Black: The Birth of Evil

Source: Frankenstein

"The Old Manse": The Author Makes the Reader Acquainted with His Abode http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/tom.html from Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)

Source: Wizard's First Rule

Source: Howl and Other Poems

1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Context: Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

Source: Lilith

1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

Source: Calculating God

This Is My Own, p. 130 (1940)

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 272.

Cults, Sects and Questions (c. 1979)

From The Declaration upon taking up Arms, before Congress, July 6th, 1775: as cited in A Conspectus of American Biography, Volume 1, ed. George Derby, J. T. White (1906), p. 239

Mesillat Yesharim (1738), Introduction

Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. 70

The First Sex, ch. 22 - Woman in the Aquarian Age (1971).

2000s, (2001)

2000s, Bush's Lincolnian Challenge (2002)

Wisdom's Dictates http://tei.it.ox.ac.uk/tcp/Texts-HTML/free/A63/A63820.html, London, 1691, §§ 39–42.

De Pace Fidei (The Peace of Faith) (1453)

The Epistle to the Romans (1918; 1921)

Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Harmony of Determinism and Freedom, p.356

Original text: Il n’est pas nécessaire que Dieu parle lui-même pour que nous découvrions des signes certains de sa volonté; il suffit d’examiner quelle est la marche habituelle de la nature et la tendance continue des événements; je sais, sans que le Créateur élève la voix, que les astres suivent dans l’espace les courbes que son doigt a tracées.
Introduction
Democracy in America, Volume I (1835)

On parental rights: Troxel v. Granville (2000) (dissenting).
2000s

Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland

XIX-XX, December 2004
A Contract With God (2004)

Carter slams Georgia's 'evolution' proposal, 30 January, 2004 http://edition.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/01/30/georgia.evolution/
Post-Presidency

Page 19.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)

Source: Milennial Dawn, Vol. III: Thy Kingdom Come (1891), p. 167.

Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Introduction

Source: Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance (1963), p. 147.

Communication to the American Crime Study Commission (May 19, 1929)

“Buddhism and the God-Idea” (1962)

"Game III," p. 98
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Game”

Source: We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism (2009)

Source: Quotes:, Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1909), p. 254

"On the Philosophy of the Asiatics" (1794)

Source: Sex and Character (1903), p. 139.

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775); Jefferson composed the first draft of this document, but the final work was done by John Dickinson, working with his original draft. Full text online http://www.nationalcenter.org/1775DeclarationofArms.html
1770s

Source: Christ's Object Lessons (1900), Ch. 1, p. 25 - 26

Hannity's America, May 13, 2007 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWoHh4_rVdg http://transcripts.wikia.com/wiki/Sean_Hannity_Christopher_Hitchens_Hannity%27s_America_May13%2C_2007?venotify=created
2000s, 2007

"Fresh Water, Salt Water, and other Macroeconomic Elixirs", 1989

Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900), p. 251
Other works

Republican Presidential Debate, 2007-10-21, quoted in [The Republican Debate on Fox News Channel, 2007-10-21, The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/us/politics/21debate-transcript.html?pagewanted=9, 2011-03-01]
asked his opinion on Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's position to do nothing to change the laws that keep abortion legal
Republican Debates

Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), Appendix A: The Essays in their Systematic Connexion, p.383

Ich setze Mich nicht voraus, weil Ich Mich jeden Augenblick überhaupt erst setze oder schaffe, und nur dadurch Ich bin, dass Ich nicht vorausgesetzt, sondern gesetzt bin, und wiederum nur in dem Moment gesetzt, wo ich mich setze, d.h. Ich bin Schöpfer un Geschöpf in Einem.
Cambridge 1995, p. 135
The Ego and Its Own (1845)

On Virginity, Chapter 18

Pearls of Wisdom

Prem Nagar, Hardwar August 21,1962 (translated from Hindi). Birthday Celebrations, as published in "Hansadesh" magazine, Issue 1, Mahesh Kare, January 1963. (First published address.)
1960s

As quoted by George Mason University's History Matters: “More Like A Pig Than a Bear”: Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo Is Taken Prisoner During the Bear Flag Revolt, 1846
Historical and Personal Memoirs Relating to Alta California (1875)

Session 4 http://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=4#20
Quotations as Ra

All Will be Well (2004)

Source: The End of Our Time (1919), p. 34

2000s, 2008, (2008)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 596.

The Eclipse (1869), conclusion

Miscellaneous
Source: Alan Keyes, January 27, 1996 at the Louisiana Republican Convention. http://www.renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/96_01_27lagop.htm.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)

Source: Animal Theology (1994), p. 24