“But if there is a personal Creator, if God is, then His creation can reflect His character; it can reveal God’s purposes for us. Our lives instantly gain meaning. The world becomes a means of knowing God as well as our dwelling place. We can truly be the reasoning, imaginative, creative persons we believe ourselves to be.”
-Chuck Colson, The Faith
“The divine substance is not visible to the eye, and the miracles of the divine government of the world and ordering of the whole creation are overlooked because of their constancy.”
-Augustine, Sermon on John 6:14
“If then a man wishes to know the deepest ocean of divine understanding, let him first if he is able scan that visible sea, and the less he finds himself to understand of those creatures which lurk beneath the waves, the more let him realize that he can know less of the depths of its Creator…Understand the creation, if you wish to know the Creator; if you will not know the former either, be silent concerning the Creator, but believe in the Creator.”
-Columbanus, Sermon I
“For this reason God even impressed a religious expression on the whole of unconscious nature – on plants, on animals and also on children. ‘The whole earth is full of His glory.’ ‘How excellent is Thy Name, God, in all the earth.’ ‘The Heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth His handiwork.’ ‘Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings Thou hast ordained praise.’ Frost and hail, snow and vapor, the abyss and the hurricane – everything does praise God.”
-Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism
“On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works I will meditate. They shall speak of the might of your awesome deeds, and I will declare your greatness. They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.”
-Psalm 145:5-7
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