Quotes About Beginning

But you, your life, it's just starting, it's all ahead of you. It's yours to throw away.

But God – I mean, even if there is a God – reaching out to him… Who would know where to start?" "You don't have to start," he answered. "God has already started. He is already reaching out to you. That's why he became a person.

Hard to know is the deity of Abraxas.... Abraxas [is] life, altogether indefinite, the mother of good and evil. Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness. [Abraxas] is the hermaphrodite of the earliest beginning. It is abundance that seeketh union with emptiness. It is holy begetting. It is love and love's murder. It is the appearance and the shadow of man.

Tao's working of things is vague and obscure. Obscure! Oh vague! In it are images. Vague! Oh obscure! In it are things. Profound! Oh dark indeed! In it a seed. Its seed is [the] very truth. In it is trustworthiness. From the earliest Beginning until today Its name is not lacking By which to fathom the Beginning of all things. How do I know it is the Beginning of all things? Through it! —Lao Tzu2

In the beginning, God the Father spoke the Word over the face of the deep, where the Holy Spirit hovered. The Holy Spirit took the seed of the Word of God and moved upon it, causing all of creation to come into existence.

How can anything that exists from eternity have a cause, since that relation implies a priority in time and a beginning of existence?

The beginning of motion in matter itself is as conceivable a priori as its communication from mind and intelligence.

8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid [trust in me]: have not I told thee from that time [ from the ancient times from the beginning; see verse 7], and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses [Israel's calling, stewardship]. Is there a God beside me [is there an idol that is a God like Me]? yea, there is no God; I know not any.

For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.

But most important of all, he kicked off in the humble tone he had been taught in his management courses:

When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become a person?

Still the fact remains, he had me hooked. As he had, of course, from the beginning. I had been writing my book about Johnno from the moment we met.

Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God's idea of God, and God's idea of God is Christ

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't."

A new year reminds us that regardless of how often we fail or miss the mark, God freely offers opportunity to begin anew.

Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.

God's first creature, which was light.

The grace of God is infinite and beyond our ability to measure. His grace has no beginning and therefore no end.

At the beginning, all we have is the vision. At that point God expects us to begin walking in obedience according to the dream He has given us.

In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him. And Man gave unto God a multitude of names, that he might be Lord over the earth when it was suited to man.