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If God created the family, He should be the ultimate definer of what it is, and that should be our point of reference.
- Tony Evans
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.
- Max Lucado
Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
- Sojourner Truth
I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Could the word 'iron' be the root from which 'irony' is derived?
- Victor Hugo
How often it happens, that, when a catastrophe occurs, if we inquire into the cause we find it originated through the obstinacy of one with little ability, but having full faith in his own powers.
- Victor Hugo
These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be born in Paris.
- Victor Hugo
Things had been falling down since the beginning of time.
- Carl Sagan
Men have tried to construct abstract and causal answers to this question of sin's origin and have violated the very limits of objectivity. Whoever reflects on the origin of cannot engage himself in a merely theoretical dispute; rather he is engaged intimately, in the problem of sin's guilt.
- GC Berkouwer
hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling;
- Herman Melville
If the universe is created, then there must be reality beyond the universe...The Creator is the source of life and establishes its meaning and purpose....To study the origin and development of the universe is, in a sense, to investigate the basis for any meaning and purpose to life. Cosmology has deep theological and philosophical ramifications.
- Hugh Ross