Pastoral Resources

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was.

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.