A Quote by Ernest Hemingway

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

Ernest Hemingway

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After Creation Days God Made Only Overrated Rested Seventh Six Six Days World

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Ernest Hemingway
American - Novelist
July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Ambrose Bierce

God may have created the world in six days, but while he was resting on the seventh, Beelzebub popped up and did this place.

Jeremy Clarkson

Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.

Saint Augustine

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business. Yet we think that we must have the seventh as well. It is like someone who, while traveling, comes upon a poor man in distress. Having but seven shillings, the generous person gives the poor man six, but when the wretch scrambles to his feet, he follows his benefactor to knock him down and steal the seventh shilling from him.

Charles Spurgeon

I rested only two days after my loss to Jim Miller.

Charles Oliveira

After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest.

Timothy Keller

On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.

Gene Perret

... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.

Elizabeth I

The seventh day of creation is the most eloquent and insightful as to the nature of God. From a literary perspective, the Sabbath forms the pinnacle of the story. Like the dramatic kiss of a soldier returning from war, this is the moment we’re not meant to miss. In choosing rest as the grand finale, God reveals himself as one driven by neither anxiety nor fear but one who finds gladness in both the work of creation and the creation of work.

Margaret Feinberg

If we do not need to worship God six days in the week why do we need to worship him on the seventh?

Lemuel K. Washburn

In the beginning God said, the four-dimensional divergence of an antisymmetric, second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light, and it was good. And on the seventh day he rested.