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All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the soul.

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

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...and he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-soon...

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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by c...

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The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is dest...

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

As truly as God by His power oncecreated, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain...

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What another would have done as well as you do not do it. What another would have said as well as y...

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Art requires that you make something else exist that is a representation of what your feeling is, or...

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Anna Deavere SmithLetters to a Young Artist

I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.

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Anne CarsonGrief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

When I asked Father Tom where we find God in this present darkness, he said that God is in creation,...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

The Maker offers us creation itself as proof of his greatness.

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Anne RicePrince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

God is a creative force, Lestat. And so are we. He told Adam, 'Increase and multiply.' That's what t...

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Anne RiceThe Tale of the Body Thief

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

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An anchorite’s hermitage is called an anchor-hold; some anchor-holds were simple sheds clamped to th...

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In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

That it’s rough out there and chancy is no surprise. Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of ext...

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In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. If ...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than de...

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When the I AM THAT I AM made nothingAnd rested, which rest it certainly deserved,Night now accompani...

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Antonio MachadoTimes Alone: Selected Poems

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud...

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We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for ...

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When something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name an...

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A professor at the University of Michigan said to me: “As soon as we create life in a test tube, we ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

As a Christian, I believe that we are all created in the image of God. I believe that God loves the ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The only one who can re-create us is the One who created us in the first place. If your watch were o...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Have we just been placed here by some unknown creator or force without any clue as to where we came ...

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The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that m...

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Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Any theory of the universe that does not take into account the God and Creator of the universe is no...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

There is no point of space, whether inside or outside the bounds of creation, where God is not prese...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

God is the Ruler of His mighty creation. There is no reason to despair, because He holds in His hand...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

[God] has in mind a picture of what He intends to create. He breaks, cracks, chisels, and polishes u...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

There is no conclusive scientific evidence that man is “up from the ape.” While the animals were cre...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

A professor at the University of Michigan said to me: “As soon as we create life in a test tube, we ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

As a Christian, I believe that we are all created in the image of God. I believe that God loves the ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The only one who can re-create us is the One who created us in the first place. If your watch were o...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Have we just been placed here by some unknown creator or force without any clue as to where we came ...

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The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that m...

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Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Any theory of the universe that does not take into account the God and Creator of the universe is no...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

There is no point of space, whether inside or outside the bounds of creation, where God is not prese...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

God is the Ruler of His mighty creation. There is no reason to despair, because He holds in His hand...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

[God] has in mind a picture of what He intends to create. He breaks, cracks, chisels, and polishes u...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

There is no conclusive scientific evidence that man is “up from the ape.” While the animals were cre...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

A professor at the University of Michigan said to me: “As soon as we create life in a test tube, we ...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

As a Christian, I believe that we are all created in the image of God. I believe that God loves the ...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The only one who can re-create us is the One who created us in the first place. If your watch were o...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Have we just been placed here by some unknown creator or force without any clue as to where we came ...

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The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that m...

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Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Any theory of the universe that does not take into account the God and Creator of the universe is no...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

There is no point of space, whether inside or outside the bounds of creation, where God is not prese...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

God is the Ruler of His mighty creation. There is no reason to despair, because He holds in His hand...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

[God] has in mind a picture of what He intends to create. He breaks, cracks, chisels, and polishes u...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

There is no conclusive scientific evidence that man is “up from the ape.” While the animals were cre...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

A professor at the University of Michigan said to me: “As soon as we create life in a test tube, we ...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

As a Christian, I believe that we are all created in the image of God. I believe that God loves the ...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The only one who can re-create us is the One who created us in the first place. If your watch were o...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Have we just been placed here by some unknown creator or force without any clue as to where we came ...

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The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that m...

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Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Any theory of the universe that does not take into account the God and Creator of the universe is no...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

There is no point of space, whether inside or outside the bounds of creation, where God is not prese...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

God is the Ruler of His mighty creation. There is no reason to despair, because He holds in His hand...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

[God] has in mind a picture of what He intends to create. He breaks, cracks, chisels, and polishes u...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

There is no conclusive scientific evidence that man is “up from the ape.” While the animals were cre...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

A professor at the University of Michigan said to me: “As soon as we create life in a test tube, we ...

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As a Christian, I believe that we are all created in the image of God. I believe that God loves the ...

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The only one who can re-create us is the One who created us in the first place. If your watch were o...

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Have we just been placed here by some unknown creator or force without any clue as to where we came ...

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The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that m...

Show More

Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator.

Any theory of the universe that does not take into account the God and Creator of the universe is no...

Show More

There is no point of space, whether inside or outside the bounds of creation, where God is not prese...

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God is the Ruler of His mighty creation. There is no reason to despair, because He holds in His hand...

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[God] has in mind a picture of what He intends to create. He breaks, cracks, chisels, and polishes u...

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There is no conclusive scientific evidence that man is “up from the ape.” While the animals were cre...

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A professor at the University of Michigan said to me: “As soon as we create life in a test tube, we ...

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As a Christian, I believe that we are all created in the image of God. I believe that God loves the ...

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The only one who can re-create us is the One who created us in the first place. If your watch were o...

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Have we just been placed here by some unknown creator or force without any clue as to where we came ...

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