Quotes About Creativity And God

#1. Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of making the earth into a fairer, kinder place. The first step is imagining a better world, and that is most apt to happen when we suffer or look on suffering.

Elizabeth O'Connor

#2. Now more than ever, we need people with the qualities Walt had: optimism, imagination, creativity, leadership, integrity, courage, boldness, perseverance, commitment to excellence, reverence for the past, hope for tomorrow and faith in God. How

Pat Williams

#3. Every human being has divinity encased within its spirit and it is the task of its creator as well as itself to set it free. No human being is an end product, every being still breathing is a creation still under creation.

Toni Sorenson

#4. God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

Erwin McManus

#5. The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God ... or an artist and a writer.

Vera Nazarian

#6. God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our hearts for it because we cannot afford to spend our time at it. ("Mad House")

Richard Matheson

#7. God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality ...

Alfred North Whitehead

#8. I related to 'A Clockwork Orange' in a personal way. I was a bit of a thug growing up. It's taken some reform for me. Thank God for artistry and creativity as an outlet.

CeeLo Green

#9. We must all cultivate our own creativity because we each have a God-given imagination that has the ability to bless generations and eternity.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#10. It was as if God had become not only the object of my praise and thanksgiving but my creative partner as well.

David Brazzeal

#11. There is no God, but there is certainly a quality I call godliness. It comprises compassion, love, friendship, joy, creativity. It brings you new songs, it brings you new dances. It brings you the truth, and the immersion of you into the truth.

Rajneesh

#12. Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

Julia Cameron

#13. I use a lot of different words for God - infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal creativity. All of these, to me, are God. And 'God' is a word, I think, that some people feel uncomfortable with, so they can use another word, you know? It's the great mystery.

Alex Grey

#14. When we are freed from the rules and regulations that are so often imposed on us in the name of God, we discover that creativity is the natural result of spirituality. And if this is true, then our soul is the primary material for all artistic expression.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#15. Therefore, at the heart of the meaning of work is creativity. If you are God, your work is to create out of nothing. If you are not God, but like God - that is, if you are human - your work is to take what God has made and shape it and use it to make him look great.

John Piper

#16. Only God is the Giver and Master of Creativity and imagination because they are gifts that can only come from Him Alone!

Cheyenne Mitchell

#17. Why do you paint, Nona?"...

'I paint first to honor God who paints the sunsets and oceans and human hearts. And second, I paint so I don't get cranky like so many of the old people in this world.

Kimberly Stuart

#18. We exist to fully participate in the creation our own lives.

Toni Sorenson

#19. Our differences will also show up from time to time, underscoring the uniqueness of our personal endowments, the variety of our experiences, and the creativity of our sovereign God.

J. Grant Howard

#20. God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

Arthur Peacocke

#21. Sexual living is a reflection of God's love for us. It has two key qualities, which is faithfulness and creativity of new life.

Vincent Nichols

#22. Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, 'Everyone who's ever taken a shower has had an idea, It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.

Mark Batterson

#23. Sexuality, like creativity, is a gift from God.

Lauryn Doll

#24. This is because the greatest problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her (John 13:34).

Gloria Furman

#25. God is waiting for the response of our freedom. Our own choice, our own creativity, is essential to the drama, and this makes the world a drama fraught with real peril.

Stratford Caldecott

#26. The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary likeness of the thing made to him who makes it, and so of the work of the made to the work of the maker ... The imagination of man is made in the image of the imagination of God.

George MacDonald

#27. We attempt to worship God apart from the power of the Holy Spirit. We trust in our own wisdom, plans, creativity, and skill. We forget that worship of the triune God includes the Holy Spirit.

Bob Kauflin

#28. I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.

Vincent Van Gogh

#29. God is a God of purpose. He doesn't wake-up and start dabbling into things; He doesn't practice trial and error. His ways are sure, they may be low but they are always sure.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#30. What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity, that's what I think, while change on the other hand, is the cornerstone of new ideas. God knows I want new ideas and new experiences

Diane Keaton

#31. In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.

Gustave Flaubert

#32. In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God, the source of knowledge and wisdom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. Conversion is the lifelong process of turning away from our plans and turning toward God's maddening, disruptive, creativity.

M. Craig Barnes

#34. Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.

Ingmar Bergman

#35. We all have a god and a poet inside us. The poet, the human; the god, the divine.
It is by the grace of our god that we can find the divine inspiration with which to wax poetic about our human experiences.

Michele Jennae

#36. God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture.

Phil Cooke

#37. When the gospel is understood primarily in terms of entrance rather than joyous participation, it can actually serve to cut people off from the explosive, liberating experience of the God who is an endless giving circle of joy and creativity.

Rob Bell

#38. The great problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her.

Gloria Furman

#39. Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

Ernest Hemingway,

#40. The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.

Erwin McManus

#41. The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself

Dorothy L. Sayers

#42. To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God.

Rajneesh

#43. Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive.

Crane Wilbur

#44. Enlightenment is at the source of everything. From it, flows our Intuition and our creative energy. It is the delta of the human spirit ~ what we innately seek to return to, as we find ourselves lost in this world.

Kim Chestney

#45. Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.

Donald Curtis

#46. It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more improbable and nothing but an imitation of God's, exercises a strange attraction.

Allan Bloom

#47. Creativity as Divine intimacy flows through us and is bigger than we are, urging us to go to the edge and grow larger. And our growth in turn delights God. "God is delighted to watch your soul enlarge," says Eckhart.

Matthew Fox

#48. Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!

John Godfrey Saxe

#49. Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.

Rudolf Steiner

#50. Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability, insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do nothing.

Marvin J. Ashton

#51. To gain new ideas we must constantly be exposing ourselves to the treasures of the world. We need to keep our eyes and our minds open. Remember, the creativity of God is everywhere. We simply need to see it, and then let that spark new ideas.

Stephen Altrogge

#52. Because you're a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.

Doreen Virtue

#53. Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.

William Temple

#54. You create a strong, unshakable internal core by unshakable internal core by understanding and pursuing the attributes that you want to inherit from your creator

Sunday Adelaja

#55. Look at the news stand, you know? I mean, it's a cacophony of famous people or people who want to be famous with blurbs all around it, and it's supposed to be, you know, that's supposed to be creativity in journalism. My God, it's unbelievable. It's shocking.

George Lois

#56. It is imperative to bear in mind that human creativity is not a claim or a right on the part of man, but God's claim on and call to man. God awaits man's creative act, which is the response to the creative act of God.

Nikolai Berdyaev

#57. I'm going to commune with God and I must be appropriately dressed!

Joseph Haydn

#58. To be ignored or rejected by people you know doesn't change God's plan about your life and your dreams He has given you. His plan about your life is wayward than the man's approval of your creativity. Keep moving forward with your head held high.

Euginia Herlihy

#59. God wants us to constantly be increasing, to be rising to new heights. He wants to increase you in His wisdom and help you to make better decisions. God wants to increase you financially, by giving you promotions, fresh ideas, and creativity.

Joel Osteen

#60. We are continuing God's work of forming, filling, and subduing. Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw out creative potential, whenever we elaborate and "unfold" creation beyond where it was when we found it, we are following God's pattern of creative cultural development.

Timothy Keller

#61. I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.

Daniel Smith

#62. I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.

Ann Voskamp

#63. The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try to worship God by performing the singularly courageous and impossible favor of knowing yourself.

Pat Conroy

#64. Jesus regularly visualized the success of his efforts ... 'I always do what pleases God.' ... Was this conceit? Or was it enlightened creativity and self-knowledge? ... Jesus was full of self-knowledge and self-love. His 'I am' statements were what he became.

Laurie Beth Jones

#65. Coming into a realization that there is purpose in why God has given all of us the gift of life- To promote the cause of Christ and God's Kingdom in a creative manner that expresses our uniqueness.

R. Alan Woods

#66. True sacrifice is the offering of self so that God can realize the power of creativity, compassion and friendship in and through your life.

Keith Ward

#67. We use a lot of creativity and new technology, cutting edge things to use in our church, but really what it comes down to is God changing a life.

Kerry Shook

#68. Our creativity, our inner sense of right and wrong, our ability to love and to reason - all bear witness to the fact that God created us in His image. The Bible says God "has not left himself without testimony" [Acts 14:17 NIV].

Billy Graham

#69. God is a great illustrator especially when I look at the humankind; different races, different genders, different heights, different weights and different shapes.His illustrations are simply breath taking, full of details and very inspiring. His creativity is beyond great and He's a mighty God.

Euginia Herlihy

#70. Withhold no good impulse. You may fear that you will run to excess and squander too much, but those feelings are born of fear. In God's reality, the more you give of yourself-in feeling, generosity, self-expression, goodness, creativity, and love-the more you will be given.

Deepak Chopra

#71. Creation is a process that is still happening and we're in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.

Richard Rohr

#72. If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof.

Leonardo Da Vinci