Quotes about Beginning

BEDE. (ubi sup.) Repent, therefore, and believe; that is, renounce dead works; for of what use is believing without good works? The merit of good works does not, however, bring to faith, but faith begins, that good works may follow.

At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

The roll out of a new car is always filled with great anticipation; it's almost like going back to school for a new school year.

The theory itself, which has been verified to five decimal places, demands an absolute beginning for time, space, and matter. It shows that time, space, and matter are co-relative. That is, they are interdependent—you can't have one without the others.

In the same way, the universe would be out of energy by now if it had been running from all eternity.

For nothing comes from nothing; nothing ever could.

This expanding universe is the second line of scientific evidence that the universe had a beginning.

Time, space, and matter came into existence at the Big Bang.

But if there are no stories, what end can there be, or what beginning?

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.--Accordingly I set off thus:

Of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the best—I'm sure it is the most religious—for I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.