“Christ, as the ultimate Imago Dei is alluded to in scripture as being without external beauty in the Classical sense, and should better be thought of as one who passed through all the slime and mire of a fallen and sinful creation in order to redeem it. His own body is to be remembered for the marks it bears-even in resurrection-of the scars of his sacrificial death. For the Christian, a theory of beauty might better begin at this point.” ShouldBodyMightChristianOrderChristBeautyCreationTheoryBearsUltimateMarkScriptureRememberedFallenScarResurrectionSlimeExternal Beauty Author:John Walford
“You are not a body. You are not a mind. You are infinite light, infinite intelligence, the radiance of all beings, the dharmakaya - the endless light of creation.” InspirationalMindBodyLightCreationBuddhismInfiniteEndlessRadianceInfinite Intelligence Author:Frederick Lenz
“How should we judge what we see? More intimately, let us consider the vulnerability of the human body and soul under these circumstances. It’s all creation. It’s made. It’s not a given.” ShouldHumansMadeSoulBodyGivenCreationJudgingCircumstancesMade ItVulnerabilityHuman Body Author:Thomas Struth
“Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.” MenChildrenBodySpiritualSpiritMotherGrowsJourneyCreationDivineIntelligentMysteriousBelovedLoved OnesMorrowSpiritual Journey Book:Montessori's Own Handbook Source: Montessori's Own Handbook
“We see the most beautiful creations whither. The beautiful young maiden becomes the old woman and she hates her body because it isn't what it used to be. The young man becomes the old dotard who has trouble remembering.” MenBodyBeautifulRememberYoungUsedSufferingHateTroubleCreationUsed To BeYoung ManOld WomanMaidensHate Her Author:Frederick Lenz
“I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but is now become A tempest, a redundant energy, Vexing its own creation.” BodyEnergyHeavenFeltVirtueCreationSweetBreathsMovedBreezeTempestRedundantQuickening Author:William Wordsworth
“Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a body of recurring imagery that "freezes" into a single metaphor cluster, the metaphors all being identified with the body of the Messiah, the man who is all men, the totality logoi who is one Logos, the grain of sand that is the world.” MenWorldWholeBodyCreationHe ManMetaphorMythNarrativeSandGrainApocalypseImageryFreezeMessiahTotalityExtendingUnifiedLogosRecurringGrains Of SandClusters Author:Northrop Frye
“The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body of men and women who understand the fundamental laws of nature and are skilled in the techniques of scientific research. We shall have rapid or slow advance on any scientific frontier depending on the number of highly qualified and trained scientists exploring it.” MenBodyLawNumbersResponsibilityCreationResearchMen And WomenScientistFundamentalsTechniqueApplicationExploringRapidsQualifiedFrontiersLaws Of NatureScientific ResearchScientific Knowledge Author:Vannevar Bush
“It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly - I kill where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads - The allotment of death.” WholeBodyFeetCreationProduceMinesPleaseMannersFeathersSophistryAllotments Author:Ted Hughes
“You are water, you understand - electrified water. The elements and balance of ocean water match the blood in your human body. Humans were made from the ocean. This is one of the greatest secrets of creation.” HumansMadeBodyWaterSecretBloodCreationBalanceElementsOceanHuman BodyOcean Water Author:Barbara Marciniak
“While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body all the senses and faculties which they possess, but in being endowed with moral and intellectual powers which are denied to them, and which at once place him at the head of the living creation, and constitute him a moral, religious, intelligent, and responsible being.” MenBodyIndividualReligiousAnimalMoralCreationHigherIntellectualPerfectionIntelligentResponsibleSensesSuperiorsFacultyDeniedExhibitsCombiningIndividual Power Author:George Combe