Quotes about Origin

Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

For even the vice which by the force of habit and long continuance has become a second nature, had its origin in the will.

The cause of things, therefore, which makes but is not made, is God; but all other causes both make and are made.

Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.

And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?...Is evil a force that swims in human blood, struggling to find its way into the heart, or is it an external possibility wanting to be formed?

Three of five seals. White: Origin is Infinite. Green: I am the Light of the World. Black: Seeing the Light in Darkness is my Journey.

I believe in the Big Bang. I just know who banged it.

An icon is like a window looking out upon eternity. Behind its two dimensional surface lies the garden of God, which is beyond dimension or size. Every time I entrust myself to these images, move beyond my curious questions about their origin, history, and artistic value, and let them speak to me in their own language, they draw me into closer communion with the God of love.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.