Quotes about Beginning
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
— Ben Stein
Sometimes, my books start with a scene I see in my mind, such as a woman in a wedding dress running away from her wedding like in 'Embers of Love.' Sometimes, a book can start with a character.
— Tracie Peterson
It's a sure thing that you will not finish if you don't start. The most difficult part of any job is getting started.
— Napoleon Hill
From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.
— David Wilkerson
The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men. We do not have a high enough opinion of our own nature. We think we are at the gates of heaven and we are only just beginning to come into our own realm as free and intelligent beings.
— Thomas Merton
In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.
— Thomas Merton
The beginning of the fight against hatred, the basic Christian answer to hatred, is not the commandment to love, but what must necessarily come before in order to make the commandment bearable and comprehensible. It is a prior commandment, to believe. The root of Christian love is not the will to love, but the faith that one is loved. The faith that one is loved by God. That faith that one is loved by God although unworthy—or, rather, irrespective of one's worth!
— Thomas Merton
To know when to stop To know when you can get no further By your own action, This is the right beginning!
— Thomas Merton
Hope is the wedding of two freedoms, human and divine, in the acceptance of a love that is at once a promise and the beginning of fulfillment.
— Thomas Merton
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of heaven. And
— Thomas Merton
Genesis 1:1—2 says, 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, . . . and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.' Think of Genesis 1:2 like this: 'Shalom hovered over the chaos.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
— Carl Jung