Quotes about Beginning

For we cannot speak of the beginning; where the beginning begins our thinking stops, it comes to an end.

No one can speak of the beginning but the one who was in the beginning. Thus the Bible begins with God's free affirmation, free acknowledgment, free revelation of himself: In the beginning God created...

Only where God is can there be a new beginning. We cannot command God to grant it; we can only pray to God for it.

O Lord, give all of us new hearts, open and obedient to you: hearts that love our neighbor and pray to you for our church. Lord, give us a good beginning; open your fatherly heart to us and lead us, one day, home to your kingdom of eternal reconciliation, through Christ the Lord! Amen.

With the birth of Jesus, the great kingdom of peace has begun.

Where the beginning begins, there our thinking stops; there it comes to an end.

They believe that a good intention already means a new beginning; they believe that on their own they can make a new start whenever they want. But that is an evil illusion: only God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God.

And we can pray only when we realize that we cannot do anything, that we have reached our limit, that someone else must make that new beginning.

For Christians the beginning of the day should not be burdened and oppressed with besetting concerns for the day's work. At the threshold of the new day stands the Lord who made it.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.