Quotes About Genesis

The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

The important thing is somehow to begin.

The beginning is half of every action.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

We will not know unless we begin.

When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.

I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.

The real genesis is forbidden to me, vis-à-vis N´s inability to confess even the mildest transgressions.

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

First times are always sacred. May we never run out of "firsts

The beginning of this successful business was an IDEA!

a space of time is a great breeder of myths.

Primordial ooze

This points us to an undeniable theological truth we learn from Genesis 4: humans are murderers, not because we commit murder, but because we are murderers at heart.

William Wordsworth

THE FIRST DAY

Legends of the Ancient Giants As is a common characteristic of ancient myths, Aztec stories of the Quinametzin echo similar stories told in other parts of the world. In Genesis 6:4, its ancient Israeli writers tell us about the Nephilim, a race of giants said to have walked the earth prior to the Great Flood.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

Starting is the most difficult part

If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh' (Genesis 2:24 NRSV). This radically upside-down statement would have shocked the original readers of Genesis and should shock us too. I don't know of any culture where men are depicted as clinging to their wives. Certainly within a patriarchal world, this is getting things backwards. There the wife leaves her parents and is absorbed into her husband's family.

In Genesis God is multiplying the mystery of the Trinity in his image bearers by creating another individual who stands on level ground with the man and is completely different from, yet one with him. The oxygen hasn't grown thin after all. God is still vision casting--this time for male/female relationships.

The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at the discriminations to be made between the self and the other, between being and non-being (the discovery of the scandal of death).

We perhaps come from something more than from someone.