Quotes About Origin

The origin of criticism lies in an innocent, heartfelt kind of question, one that is far from simple and that carries enormous risk: Did you feel that? Was it good for you? Tell the truth.

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

L'Africain a été le premier homme sur la Terre, les autres races ne sont venues qu'après. Tous les hommes sont donc des immigrés, sauf les Africains qui sont chez eux ici-bas.

The world has drifted unspeakably far from its origin and intention, and is not a worthy guide to what is right, true, and healing.

If we look at the Bible as a memory aid meant to reorient us to where we came from and get us back home, it might mean we live a life filled with the kind of adventure it was always intended to hold. At least that's what happened to me.

the birth of our universe was a one-performance event, and we weren't there in the audience.

Says Carroll: "When I came to understand that the reason I can remember the past but not the future is ultimately related to conditions at the Big Bang, that was a startling epiphany.

According to the Veda, before all things came desire.

It is easy to forget, not that we ever should, that everything in this world is an accident, including the origin of life itself, plus the accumulation of riches. We should show more respect for nature, not less. An accident isn't necessarily ever over. "Scratching The Head

The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world

Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge.

Herein lies the serpent's deceit. Man knows good and evil, but because he is not the origin, because he acquires this knowledge only at the price of estrangement from the origin, the good and evil that he knows are not the good and evil of God but good and evil against God. They are good and evil of man's own choosing, in opposition to the eternal election of God. In becoming like God man has become a god against God.

Without God, all seeing and perceiving of things and laws become abstraction, a separation from both origin and goal.

Man at his origin knows only one thing: God. It is only in the unity of his knowledge of God that he knows of other men, of things, and of himself. He knows all things only in God, and God in all things. The knowledge of good and evil shows that he is no longer at one with this origin.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

Nothing can be produced out of nothing.

Which raises a perplexing question: What about the big bang? Didn't it happen 13 billion 799 million years ago, before any observers?

Life comes only from life.

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.