Quotes About Beginning

Sometime in the distant past the Indian people had known these immense beasts. Maybe they had hunted them or prayed to them. For the first time he understood that the red men had myths and histories of their own going back to the beginning of human time. That these myths had nothing to do with Europeans. Nothing. Jiles, Paulette. The Color of Lightning: A Novel (p. 127). HarperCollins e-books. Kindle Edition.

The sunshine filtered in through the billowing white curtains. Tatiana knew there would be only an instant, a brief flicker of time that bathed her with the possibilities of the day. In a moment it would all be gone. And in a moment it was. Still...that sun streaking through the room, the distant rumble of buses through the open window, the slight wind. This was the part of Sunday that Tatiana loved most: the beginning.

La lucha no termina sólo porque ya conozcas el camino. Eso es sólo el principio.

This is just the beginning of some kind of end, she said, as if she were speaking to the cloudy aquarelle of the city, to the sad sky the dusk had splashed with color.

Life, like the trance we call Love, might begin with a look, a glance, an exchange between eyes

I have no idea where I am going, she thought, but I have begun.

er tida en sekk du kan stappe inn i hvor mye som helst, går den aldri bare herfra til dit, men i stedet i sirkel etter sirkel, og så kommer du tilbake hver eneste gang til stedet hvor du begynte. Men det var ikke sånn heller. Før var jeg ung, nå var jeg ikke ung. Jeg ble aldri ung igjen.

greatest theologian of the twentieth century, Karl Barth, said that 'to clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world'. And

a view that reflects the profound words of Dr. Gaffin: "Christ is the mediatorial Lord and Savior of redemptive history not only at its end but also from beginning to end.

He is not only its omega but also its alpha, and he is and can be its omega only as he is its alpha."1

A volte mi sembra che la terra non voglia che le cose durino, ma voglia che tutto crolli e che noi tutti che ne andiamo via. Che voglia tornare al principio, al giardino con i frutti e gli animali, prima che Dio diventasse ambizioso e rovinasse tutto. Avrebbe dovuto riposare al sesto giorno, non al settimo.

The Adam story, then, is not simply about the past. It's about Israel's present brought into the past—even as far past as the beginning of the human drama itself.

This theme has a lot of moving parts. The bottom line is that when God saves Israel, it is an "act of creation"—or perhaps better, "an act of re-creation." To save is to re-create because to be saved is to start anew.

When you dive into the sea, you are diving into the origin of us all.

Los oyentes raras veces se enganchan a un relato si no detectan al principio un cierto reto atractivo.

When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.

Funny how you can live your whole life waiting and not knowing it. Waiting for your real life to begin. Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize that when it's too late.

We look back in time. "The Bible...looks forward from the beginning.

Whenever God gives a miracle child to an old couple, it is a sign that He is beginning something new. An old couple having their first child means a new life. But a virgin who conceives must mark the beginning of a new creation.

he could see the first signs of marbling starting

would be to start local. Assuming

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.