Quotes about Source

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

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

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

Love is an aspect of being, and when you act from being, the power you draw on is limitless because it comes from the source.

Numbing the pain never goes to the source of the real issue to make us healthier. It only silences our screaming need for help.

God is the source and giver of our prosperity: "But remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth" (Deut. 8:18a).

A mind capable of forming an argument against God's existence constitutes evidence for his existence. That is, a conscious being with the ability to reason, weigh evidence, and argue logically must come from a source that has at least the same level of cognitive ability.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

Because humans are capable of knowing, the first cause that produced them must have a mind. Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause must have a will. And so on. Philosopher Étienne Gilson captures the argument neatly: because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must be also a Someone.

Where there is a rotten root, there will always be rotten fruit.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom.