Quotes About Origin

And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.

Det sted man er fra er alltid pent, det er fedrelandsfølelsen i det små, hjemmefølelsen. ("Bonde", 1918)

My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.

No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.

Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoa bumped into each other under a volcanic cesspool and evolved into Cindy Crawford.

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

The baby understands that its mother loves it. [...] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.

You're a fool. If you'd stayed where you came from, you wouldn't have ended up like this...

The result was several distinct species, to each of which scientists have assigned a pompous Latin name.

Physicists define the Big Bang as a singularity. It is a point at which all the known laws of nature did not exist. Time too did not exist. It is thus meaningless to say that anything existed 'before' the Big Bang.

But the soul has no parts. You might argue that human souls did not evolve, but appeared one bright day in the fullness of their glory. But when exactly was that bright day?

W rzeczywisto?ci nasze poj?cia "naturalnego" i "nienaturalnego" nie wywodz? si? z biologii, ale z teologii chrze?cija?skiej.