Quotes about Origin

Like Jesus, who didn't know who his biological father was either. I have often thought it was this lack of knowledge of his earthly father that led him to his 'heavenly' one, for there is in all of us a yearning to know our own source, and no source is likely to seem too farfetched to a lonely, fatherless child.

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.

The chicken came first — God would look silly sitting on an egg.

Ye are of your father the devil… there is no truth in him…. he is a liar, and the father of it.

Man 1: Where are you from? Man 2: From a place where we do not end sentences with prepositions. Man 1: Okay, where are you from, jackass?

Ho! You ask after my faith. Well, now—I believe that something cannot emerge from nothing without divine intervention.

If the Church is to be indigenous it must spring up in the soil from the very first seeds planted.

A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.

And this is the origin of freewill, that Adam wished to be independent, and dared to try what he was able to do.

Can we conceive that man was so placed in the earth as to be ignorant of his own origin, and of the origin of those things which he enjoyed?

From the power of God we are naturally led to consider his eternity since that from which all other things derive their origin must necessarily be selfexistent and eternal.

Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.