Quotes about Beginning

In the Old Testament story God points out the one forbidden thing. Now, God must have known very well that man was going to eat the forbidden fruit. But it was by doing that that man became the initiator of his own life. Life really began with that act of disobedience.

Our own poor poets, I am afraid, have been so intimidated by our clinics and laboratories that they have abandoned the first principles of beginning, that of the festival; and the heart of the festival has always been the atmosphere of myth, of delight.

And Teddy worried lots about The fact that he was rather stout. He thought: "If only I were thin! But how does anyone begin?

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on midnoon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

It is no coincidence that the first two chapters of the Bible (Genesis 1—2) begin with the creation of the heavens and the earth and the last two chapters (Revelation 21—22) begin with the re-creation of the heavens and the earth. All

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.

As Julie Andrews once sang, "Nothing came from nothing. Nothing ever could.

Where were you born? On a battlefield, [Yossarian] answered. No, no. In what state were you born? In a state of innocence.

the cosmological argument. The idea is that everything that begins to exist must have a cause.