Quotes about Existence

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.

Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life...

It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon which is past the reach of all but our most desperate desiring and is finally the beauty of Beauty itself, of Being itself and what lies at the heart of Being.

It is out of the absence of God that God makes himself present.

Life without death has become as unthinkable to me as day without night or waking without sleep.

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there were no God. Before there can be a hole in a uniform, there must be a uniform; before there is death, there must be life; before there is error, there must be truth; before there is a crime, there must be liberty and law; before there is a war, there must be peace; before there is a devil, there must be a God, rebellion against whom made the devil.

She existed in the Divine Mind as an Eternal Thought before there were any mothers. She is the Mother of mothers—she is the world's first love.

Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.

Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.