Quotes about Origin

Life cannot arise spontaneously but comes only from preexisting life.

Before Satan there was no sin, and before sin there was no pain.

Love has its source in God, for love is the very essence of His being.

Duty, Tattycoram. Begin it early, and do it well; and there is no antecedent to it, in any origin or station, that will tell against us with the Almighty, or with ourselves.

But they know who Adam is from they own point of view. And for a whole lot longer time ago. And who that? Mr. ______ ast. The first man that was white. Not the first man. They say nobody so crazy they think they can say who was the first man. But everybody notice the first white man cause he was white.

He is not only its omega but also its alpha, and he is and can be its omega only as he is its alpha."1

How comes the world to be here at all instead of the nonentity which might be imagined in its place? ... from nothing to being there is no logical bridge.

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

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

it can only be conceived as a shuttling back and forth within the bounds of finitude, while genuine unity withdraws beyond the circle of creation into the realm of the inconceivable. So "every created thing has the divine and ineffable monad, which is God himself, as its origin and its end, because it comes forth from him and ultimately returns to him".

And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”