The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture.
At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
—Plato
Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
There is one thing that I fear more than anything else, and that is the dead, cold formalism of the Church of God. So many of us are just sleeping and slumbering while souls are perishing. Some are beginning to rub our eyes and get them half-opened, but as a whole we are asleep.
—D. L. Moody
There are some surprises hidden in the story of the beginning.
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
—Franz Kafka
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
—Marcus Aurelius
The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.
—Vincent Van Gogh
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
—Charles Darwin
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
—Seneca
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
—Henry Ford
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
—Oscar Wilde
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
—Plato
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
—Aristotle
Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
—Nikolai Gogol
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
—Plato
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture.
At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
—Plato
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
—Socrates
And so I believe that the way of peace is found in looking on to the End of the Lord, not in puzzling over the beginning or the middle of His ways.
—Amy Carmichael
From eternity to eternity he is who he is. There is in him no variation or shadow due to change (James 1:17). God is not a process of becoming but an eternal being. He is without beginning and end, but also knows no earlier and later.
—Herman Bavinck
Grace is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the entire work of salvation; it is totally devoid of human merit.
—Herman Bavinck
There is one thing that I fear more than anything else, and that is the dead, cold formalism of the Church of God. So many of us are just sleeping and slumbering while souls are perishing. Some are beginning to rub our eyes and get them half-opened, but as a whole we are asleep.
—D. L. Moody
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky