Quotes About Origin

We read scripture in order to be refreshed in our memory and understanding of the story within which we ourselves are actors, to be reminded where it has come from and where it is going to, and hence what our own part within it ought to be.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

Another misapprehension, shared alike by the followers of "pietism" and "scientism," was that the recognition of the non-unitary origin of the Pentateuch must be destructive of faith and inimical to religion. But is it not to circumscribe the power of God in a most extraordinary manner to assume that the Divine can only work effectively through the medium of a single document, but not through four? Surely God can as well unfold His revelation in successive stages as in a single moment of time.

You young people. Where do you think you come from, huh?" "I arrived by stork," Raj said seriously. "My brother and sister by magic.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

neither materialism nor pantheism is up to the task of accounting for the origin of human beings.

The biological structure of our bodies is not some evolutionary accident.

And the reason is that they thought matter was eternal.

The inescapable fact that we are personal beings constitutes evidence that our origin is a personal Being.

It is the height of illogic to think that humans originated from anything with lower functionality than themselves—from a something instead of a Someone.

The existence of personal beings constitutes evidence that they were created by a personal God, not by any non-personal cause.

Most people do not realize that, technically, Darwinism denies that species are real. The theory proposes that evolution proceeds through minor changes in an ever-continuous chain of individuals. What appear to be species are merely temporary groupings in the ever-shifting populations of evolving organisms, eddies in the genetic stream. (It is ironic that Darwin's major work is called On the Origin of Species when in fact he denied the reality of species.)

We bastards are not to blame for any of it.

We should remember this. Often it may seem that time has taken us very far from our origin. But if we take only a few more steps, we will round the corner and see a familiar place. And sometimes it may seem that in all our traveling we have returned to the place where we began. But although the view may be similar, it will never be identical; we should remember that there is no return.

Often it may seem that time has taken us very far from our origin. But if we take only a few more steps, we will round the corner and see a familiar place. And sometimes it may seem that in all our traveling we have returned to the place where we began. But although the view may be similar, it will never be identical; we should remember that there is no return.

The great mass of society are far from being depraved; for if a large majority were criminal or inclined to break the laws, where would the force or power be to prevent or constrain them? And herein is the real blessing of civilization, because this happy result has its origin in her bosom, growing out of her very nature.

It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again and collect a weekly allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at the least, accept it.

He is dark as history, origin of the word native: the weight of blood

The servant, still a child, cranes his neck, turns his face up toward all of them. He is dark as history, origin of the word native: the weight of blood, a pale mistress on his back, heavier every year.

It is certain that no culture can flourish without narratives of transcendent origin and power

We now know that our universe is almost certainly 13.77 billion years old, and that it expanded more than a trillion trillion times in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a second of its life.

Muž by m?l mít d?m poblíž svého rodišt?, kde by našel klid, který jinde postrádá.

Why should you ask man for permission to express when you realise that your world, in its every detail, originated within you and is sustained by you as the only conceptional center?

Ends run true to origin.