It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.
— Stephen Hawking
The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.
— Rowan Williams
It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.
— Elie Wiesel
We are born into God's kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)
— Marianne Williamson
If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?