Beginnings Quotes (page 31)

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• joy
• new
• true

So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the joy of expelling, discarding, cleansing itself of a recurrent impurity. Italo Calvino

• thinking
• die
• died

I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying. Robert Redford

• love
• sacrifice
• loved

where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Victor Hugo

• life
• effort
• cheer

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. Helen Keller

• life
• decision
• your life

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life. John C. Maxwell

• fighting
• freedom
• time

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. H. L. Mencken

• life
• moments
• becomes

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession. Emile M. Cioran

• lost
• completion
• find

Not till we are completely lost or turned around... do we begin to find ourselves. Henry David Thoreau

• value
• world
• question

Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark. Ursula K. Le Guin

• dead
• beginning
• begins

Marley was dead: to begin with. Charles Dickens

• morality
• embarrassment
• embarrass

To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms. John Leonard

• cross
• seeing
• beginning

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us. John Stott

• single
• journey
• singled

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao Tzu

• peace
• home
• world

In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world. Mother Teresa

• thank god
• thanks
• sick

I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love what others love. I start to call earth "home." Before you know it, I am calling luxeries "needs" and using my money just the way unbelievers do. I begin to forget the war. I don't think much about people perishing. Missions and unreached people drop out of my mind. I stop dreaming about the triumphs of grace. I sink into a secular mind-set that looks first to what man can do, not what God can... John Piper