When the all-powerful, invisible, incomprehensible,
and inestimable God formed us from clay,
he ennobled us with the image of his own grandeur.

 
St. Columban, 6th century

Listen to the sermon preached to you
by the flowers, 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.

 
St. Paul of the Cross, 18th century

Of his own free will, God created all;
the only Creator; the only Lord,
commanding all things into existence.

 
St. Irenaeus, 2nd century

God willed that man should, in some measure,
know him through his creatures.

 
St. Robert Bellarmine, 16th century

The very first garment we ever had was love,
for it was only by love
that we were created in God's image and likeness.
So we cannot exist without love
since we are made of nothing less than love.

 
St. Catherine of Siena, 14th century

There is nothing in the whole universe of beings
from the first angel down to the last worm
and from the summit of heaven to the lowest depth
which was not made by God’s power.

 
St. Robert Bellarmine, 16th century

Every creature, whether it speaks or is silent,
whether in heaven or on earth,
gives glory to its maker.

 
St. Basil, 4th century

If Roman coins bore Caesar in effigy and must be returned to him,
the Creator’s fingerprint, that of the one and only Lord of life,
is in man’s heart.

 
His Holiness, Benedict XVI