Our Origin Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
— Teresa of Avila
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Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our…
— Mary Midgley
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You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for a purpose.…
— Rick Warren
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The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we…
— Douglas MacArthur
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The Bible is teh means through which we are introduced to Jesus and invited to follow Him in the life of humility and service. Secured…
— Richard J. Foster
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It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads…
— Rick Warren
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Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or…
— Bill Nye
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This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of the etenally leveling…
— Denis Johnson
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we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage…
— Carl Sagan
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Within all of us is a varying amount of space lint and star dust, the residue from our creation. Most are too busy to notice…
— K O Eckland
Who Wrote These Our Origin Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 12 Our Origin Quotes as follows: