What They Said

“ALL God’s works praise him whether they be magnificent or minute, they all discover the wisdom, the power and the benevolence of their Creator. “All thy works praise thee, O God.” But there are some of his more majestic works which sing the song of praise louder than others. There are some of his doings, upon which there seems to be graven in larger letters than usual the name of God. Such are the lofty mountains, which worship God with uncovered heads both night and day, such are the rolling seas, too mighty to be managed by man, but held in check by God, and such, especially, are the thunders and the lightnings. The lightnings are the glances of the eyes of God, and the thunders are the utterings of his voice.”

Charles Spurgeon

"Moreover, because man is created in the image of God, we may say that he has the revelation of God's presence built into his constitution. His knowledge of God is innate, in the sense that his own constitution reflects to himself the presence of God.

And this innate knowledge as revelation of God is correlative to the revelation of God in man's environment. Thus man's knowledge of God never operates independently of the knowledge he acquires from observation of his environment.

Still further, man's knowledge of God through observation of his own constitution and his knowledge of God through his study of his environment do not function independently of God's direct person-to-person covenantal communication.

Thus the whole of man's relation to God, and indirectly the whole of man's relation to his created environment, is a person-to-person, a covenantal affair. Man is he who as God's image bearer answers to God. He answers to God. He answers to God always and everywhere."

Cornelius Van Til

“God is incomparable in His work of creation.  The creature cannot create.  We can alter the form, but we cannot produce the matter.  A goldsmith can make a sparkling jewel, but he requires precious stones to do so.  He cannot make gold out of dust, or diamonds out of dirt.  We cannot create one grain of corn or one blade of grass.  We can put the matter unto a better form, but we cannot make matter when there is none.”

George Swinnock

I SING the almighty power of God, 

That made the mountains rise, 

That spread the flowing seas abroad, 

And built the lofty skies. 

I sing the wisdom that ordained 

The sun to rule the day; 

The moon shines full at His command 

And all the stars obey. 

I sing the goodness of the Lord 

That filled the earth with food; 

He formed the creatures with His word. 

And then pronounced them good.

There's not a plant or flower below

But makes His glories known.; 

And clouds arise, and tempests blow, 

By order from His throne.

Creatures, as numerous as they be,

Are subject to His care; 

There's not a place where we can flee 

But God is present there.

His hand is my perpetual guard,

Isaac Watts

(Divine Songs for Children - Song 2)

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

John Calvin

 ”He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?” 

Augustine