We take a low and primitive view of things when we conceive of God at the creation coming into physical contact with things, shaping and fitting and building like a carpenter. The Bible teaches otherwise: "By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth...For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast."

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of science is not able to make an oyster.

God made the country and man made the town - and you certainly can see the difference.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot think that this watch exists and has no Watchmaker.

...man is distinguished from both animals and machines on the basis of his moral motions, his need for love, his fear of non-being and his longings for beauty and for meaning. Death in the City (Downers Grove, InterVarsity Press: 1969) 95

How does a play originate? Does it write itself? Do the actors make it up as they go along? Or is there someone - not on the stage, not like the people on stage - someone we don't see-who invented it all and caused it be? - this is rarely asked or answered.

There is no creature so small and abject that it representeth not the goodness of God.

The human genome will not help us to understand the spiritual side of humankind, or to know who God is or what love is. The well-heeled couple who decide they want to use genetics to have a child that is a gifted musician may end up with a sullen adolescent who smokes marijuana and doesn’t talk to them.

The impulse to create the world was not from weakness, as though God were lacking in some perfection which creation could supply.

God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.