Kabbalah
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
I Ching
God has made all things out of nothing
because...
even though the world has been made of some material,
that material has been made out of nothing.
Augustine
The cosmos comes forth from the Eternal,
and moves within Him.
With His power it reverberates,
like thunder crashing from the sky.
Those who realize Him
pass beyond the sway of death.
Upanishads