Quotes about Origin

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

of all things, the greatest, and most important, and most all-embracing, is this society in which human beings and God are associated together. From this are derived the generative forces to which not only my father and grandfather owe their origin, but also all beings that are born and grow on the earth, and especially rational beings, [5] since they alone are fitted by nature to enter into communion with the divine, being bound to God through reason.

It is not your concern by what means something returns to the Source from which it came.

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

all authority of governments on earth originates from the Sovereignty of God alone.

it may never be said that like the state and the church, science arose because of sin and thus from an intervening grace.

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most

The ancestor of every action is a thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson

These extremes of feeling at either end of the spectrum that most of us wish to avoid, even as we are drawn into them, are the twin realities that help shape our search. We want to find happiness. We want to avoid pain. We want to know who we are. We want to know what we are. We care about our origin and our essence. Pleasure and pain become indicators along the way on the road that will lead us to our destiny, and they are rooted in the question of our origin.

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.