As Julie Andrews once sang, "Nothing came from nothing. Nothing ever could.

We have no empirical evidence of something emerging without a cause from absolute nothing.

If you want a quality act as if you already had it.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Your words and thoughts have physical power.

Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

In The Sound of Music, when Captain Von Trapp and Maria reveal their love for each other, what does Maria say? "Nothing comes from nothing; nothing ever could." We don't normally think of philosophical principles as romantic, but Maria was here expressing a fundamental principle of classical metaphysics.

Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.

God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.

one consistent and clear revelation in the Judeo-Christian Scriptures, it is that the God of Israel is the one who turns death into life (see Deuteronomy 32:39, Romans 4:17, 2 Corinthians 1:9). When we can trust the transformative pattern, when we can trust that God is in the suffering, our wounds become sacred wounds and the actual and ordinary life journey becomes itself the godly journey, trusting God to be in all things, especially

You can start out with nothing, and out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made.     Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã¢â‚¬Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith; former drug enthusiast turned spiritual enthusiast turned inspirational badass I