Quotes about Origin

Man 1: Where are you from? Man 2: From a place where we do not end sentences with prepositions. Man 1: Okay, where are you from, jackass?

Ho! You ask after my faith. Well, now—I believe that something cannot emerge from nothing without divine intervention.

If the Church is to be indigenous it must spring up in the soil from the very first seeds planted.

A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.

And this is the origin of freewill, that Adam wished to be independent, and dared to try what he was able to do.

Can we conceive that man was so placed in the earth as to be ignorant of his own origin, and of the origin of those things which he enjoyed?

From the power of God we are naturally led to consider his eternity since that from which all other things derive their origin must necessarily be selfexistent and eternal.

Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

Territorial disputes have at all times been found one of the most fertile sources of hostility among nations. Perhaps the greatest proportion of wars that have desolated the earth have sprung from this origin.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.