Quotes about Origin

but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.

The dregs of Romulus.

As a child of God, you aren't just a manifestation of your biological family. You are a manifestation of your spiritual family—your true family of origin. If you let Him, the Spirit of God will manifest the Father and the Son through you.

The very simple meaning of what Moses says, therefore, is this: everything that is, was created by God.

In his ministry to the sick Luther recommended physicians, barbers, and apothecaries. Resort to medicine is desirable, he said, and it is well that physicians and nurses do what they can. However, Luther went beyond most of these physicians in pointing to the mental and emotional origin of some physical ailments. "Our physical health depends in large measure on the thoughts of our minds. This is in accord with the saying, 'Good cheer is half the battle.'"{18}

We read scripture in order to be refreshed in our memory and understanding of the story within which we ourselves are actors, to be reminded where it has come from and where it is going to, and hence what our own part within it ought to be.

neither materialism nor pantheism is up to the task of accounting for the origin of human beings.

The biological structure of our bodies is not some evolutionary accident.

The inescapable fact that we are personal beings constitutes evidence that our origin is a personal Being.

It is the height of illogic to think that humans originated from anything with lower functionality than themselves—from a something instead of a Someone.

The existence of personal beings constitutes evidence that they were created by a personal God, not by any non-personal cause.

natural selection may be able to explain the survival of a species, but it cannot explain the arrival of a species.