Quotes about Existence
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
- John Piper
We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody
- John Piper
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
- John Updike
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
- John Updike
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever." Deuteronomy 29:29. Just how God accomplished the work of creation he has never revealed to men; human science cannot search out the secrets of the Most High. His creative power is as incomprehensible as his existence.
- Ellen White
For what was the great controversy permitted to continue throughout the ages? Why was it that Satan's existence was not cut short at the outset of his rebellion? It was that the universe might be convinced of God's justice in His dealing with evil; that sin might receive eternal condemnation.
- Ellen White
Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
- Emily Bronte
I did not live on the earth but in it, in communion with all that gave me life.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Is Christian faith primarily about being Christian or becoming truly human?
- Barbara Brown Taylor
God has leveraged the human spirit to move in His direction, and all the material we need to bring a person to the realization that they were created by God actually already exists inside that person.
- Erwin McManus
I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done.
- Melissa McCarthy
There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.
- George Lucas