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Inspirational Quotes & Scriptures

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Creation Care
Inspirational Quotes and Scriptures
All Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, unless otherwise indicated.

Hymn, “This Is My Father’s World” (Maltbie D.Babcock, 1901), based upon Psalm 50:12: “All the world is mine and
everything in it.”

Genesis 2 and Revelation 2: "The world begins in a garden and ends in a restored garden."

“These creatures minister to our needs every day: without them we could not live; and through them the human race
greatly offends the Creator. We fail every day to appreciate so great a blessing by not praising as we should the
Creator and Dispenser of all these things.”
St. Francis of Assissi

“For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can
clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.”
(Romans 1:20)

“It is time to destroy all who have caused destruction on the earth.” (Revelation 11:18)

“The creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and fi lled with the most exquisite and the same
time the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells us of God.”
John Calvin

“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on
the earth is yours, O Lord, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things.” (1 Chronicles
29:11)

“The creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. For
we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.” (Romans 8:21-
22)

“We can gather that all the creatures of the world lead the mind of the contemplative and wise man to the eternal
God. For these creatures are shadows, echoes, and pictures . . . and vestiges proposed to us and signs divinely
given so that we can see God.”
St. Bonaventure

“O Lord, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your
creatures.” (Psalm 104:24)

“The power of God is present at all places, even in the tiniest leaf. . . . God is currently and personally present in the
wilderness, in the garden, and in the field.”
Martin Luther

“When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fi ngers—the moon and the stars you have set in place—what
are mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?” (Psalm 8:3-4)

“If thy heart were right, then every creature would be a mirror of life, and a book of holy doctrine. There is no creature
so small and abject, but it refl ects the goodness of God.”
Thomas à Kempis

“The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display his craftsmanship.” (Psalm 19:1)

“The heavens declare the glory of God not by speaking in voice audible to the sensible ears, but by manifesting to us
through their own greatness, the power of the Creator, and when we remark on their beauty, we give glory to their
Maker as the best of all Artifi cers.” John of Damascus

“The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to work it and care for it.” (Genesis 2:15, niv)

Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your
food. And I have given every green plant as food for all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the small animals
that scurry along the ground—everything that has life.” (Genesis 1:29-30)

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“You alone are the Lord. You made the skies and the heavens and all the stars. You made the earth and the seas
and everything in them. You preserve them all, and the angels of heaven worship you.” (Nehemiah 9:6)

“The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him. For he laid the earth’s
foundation on the seas and built it on the ocean depths.” (Psalm 24:1-2)

“Let every created thing give praise to the Lord, for he issued his command, and they came into being. He set them in
place forever and ever. His decree will never be revoked.” (Psalm 148:5-6)

“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge
fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.” (Proverbs 31:8, niv)

“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.” (1 Corinthians 10:26)

“For through [Jesus Christ] God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can
see and the things we can’t see—such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything
was created through him and for him.” (Colossians 1:16)

“Long ago God spoke many times and in many ways to our ancestors through the prophets. And now in these fi nal
days, he has spoken to us through his Son. God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance, and through the
Son he created the universe.” (Hebrews 1:1-2)

“I have walked at night and gone into your homes and found people dying unloved. Here in the West you have a
different kind of poverty . . . a poverty of the spirit, of loneliness, of being unwanted. And that is the worst disease in
the world today, not tuberculosis or leprosy, or AIDS.”
Mother Teresa

“The little birds singing are a signing of God; the beasts cry unto Him; the elements are in awe of Him; the mountains
echo His name; the waves and streams cast their glances at Him; the herbs and fl owers praise Him. Nor do we need
to labor or seek Him far off, since each one of us fi nds God within himself (herself), inasmuch as we are all upheld
and preserved by His power dwelling in us.”
John Calvin

Jesus said, “My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.” (John 10:10)

“Listen to the sermon preached to you by the fl owers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how
they preach to you a sermon full of love, of praise of God, and how they invite you to glorify the sublimity of that
sovereign Artist who has given them being.”
Paul of the Cross

“Just ask the animals, and they will teach you. Ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you. Speak to the earth; and
it will instruct you. Let the fi sh in the sea speak to you.” (Job 12:7-8)

“How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of Heaven’s Armies. . . . Even the sparrow fi nds a home, and the swallow
builds her nest and raises her young, at a place near your altar.” (Psalm 84:1-4)

“I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries of distress. . . . Yes, I am aware
of their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them.” (Exodus 3:7-8)

“Praise the Lord from the earth, you creatures of the ocean depths, . . . mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all
cedars, wild animals and all livestock, small scurrying animals and birds, kings of the earth and all people, rulers and
judges of the earth, young men and young women, old men and children.” (Psalm 148:7-13)

(Numbers 6:24-26) [The Peace of “Shalom”]

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