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If somehow Alpha and Omega is as touching as Wall-E then great!
Lionsgate Release Alpha and Omega Trailer | The Movie Blog 2010
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The animated Alpha and Omega, which also opened this weekend, came in fifth place with $9.2 million after Resident Evil: Afterlife ($10.1 million).
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One above, showing the Chi-Rho monogram, standing for Christ, with Alpha and Omega on each side, standing for the beginning and end, was found in the ruins of a fourth-century house-church at Lullingstone, Kent.
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The Greek letters Alpha and Omega have no relation to the word Truth.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Monuments of the third class, representing Alpha and Omega in connection with another symbol, usually the monogram of Christ, are much more common than those of the two former classes.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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For the early Greek-speaking Christians the cross (X), being the initial of the name of Christ (Xpistos [i.e. Christos]), was constantly in evidence; soon the idea was conceived of replacing the plain cross by the monogram, and finally there were added on either side the letters Alpha and Omega (i.e. the beginning and the end) as on the Carthaginian moulds.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Baptists believe that John the Baptist was a man sent from God, but that Heaven only gave him the honor of introducing the Son of God, who is the embodiment of the Church -- the Alpha and Omega.
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Christianity is absolute and final, it is the _non plus ultra, _ the Alpha and Omega, of religion, because its God is the only true God, its Mediator is the only-begotten Son of God, its ransom is the blood of God, and its gift is perfect union with God.
American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod 1894
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And if it be my Alpha and Omega that everything heavy shall become light, everybody a dancer, and every spirit a bird: and verily, that is my Alpha and Omega!
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And if it be my Alpha and Omega that everything heavy shall become light, every body a dancer, and every spirit a bird: and verily, that is my Alpha and Omega!
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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