Quotes about Existence
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
- Charles Dickens
It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.
- Julian of Norwich
The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Everything has being through the love of God.
- Julian of Norwich
I am worth loving. I do not have to earn love. I am lovable because I exist. Others reflect the love I have for myself.
- Louise Hay
I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being.
- Olivia Newton-John
We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God's very self.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
know that I'm not a human being having a spiritual experience. I'm a spiritual being having a human experience.
- Jon Gordon
When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.
- Jonathan Edwards
Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?
- Jonathan Edwards