Quotes About Origin

As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.

Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they were still more barbarous, and in all probability long after the facts which it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling those fabulous accounts, which every nation gives of its origin.

with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds or trace their history from eternity to eternity?

It is only from the selfishness and confined generosity of men, along with the scanty provision nature has made for his wants, that justice derives its origin.

If I am right in saying that thought is the ultimate origin or source, it follows that if we don't do anything about thought, we won't get anywhere. We may momentarily relieve the population problem, the ecological problem, and so on, but they will come back in another way.

disaster, a word that comes from the French des astres, or "from the stars.

It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.

God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.

God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.

Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

God made the integers, man made the rest.

The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.

All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

What did turtles evolve from? Really, I want to know. And for God's sake, don't say lizards, because turtles are nothing like lizards. They could not be more different.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Time was God's first creation.

Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.

God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.

When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?

God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.